A Blog by Coe Hutchison
“Harry’s Trees” by Jon Cohen
Hello Friends, it has been a long time since I have written. We have had some good vacation in Tucson [...]
Love Came Down At Christmas
Photo by Gareth Harper on Unsplash I recently read in an Anne Lamott book, “Love is hard. Love [...]
Trouble At the Inn
Here is the second installment of Christmas stories. This one is "Trouble At the Inn," originally published in Guideposts and [...]
The Christmas Birds
I love Christmas stories. So this year I have video recorded a couple of my favorites as part of an [...]
Christmas Reflections
I have been reading Howard Thurman's, "The Mood of Christmas." It is excellent and I wanted to share two short [...]
Advent Prayers
I recently attended an Advent Quiet Morning prayer retreat. It was great. The extended and repeated periods of silence were [...]
An Invitation to Hope
I have written in this space recently about hope and continue to watch for signs of hope and try to [...]
Jesus Cries Too
This is an excerpt from one of my favorite authors, Frederick Buechner, as reprinted in a recent Compassionate Christianity newsletter. [...]
Advent
I love the season of Advent. This year, Advent begins on Sunday, Nov. 28. I often break out the Christmas [...]
Living Unafraid in A Fear-Full World-Part 2
Photo by Ronak Valobobhai on Unsplash In Part 1, I wrote of the importance of naming our fears/pain, [...]
Living Unafraid in A Fear-Full World-Part 1
Photo by Ronak Valobobhai on Unsplash How do we live hopeful and faithful lives in a world that [...]
Black Lives Matter
In early September our church participated in the local Mukilteo Light House Festival parade. Janet and I decided to walk [...]