by Dorothy Greco | Mar 30, 2018 | At the Intersection of Faith & Culture, Blog, Friday Soul Food, Spirituality
What happened between the crucifixion and the resurrection? Scripture reveals little, telling us only that Christ descended into hell. Whether you read that literally or figuratively, it feels an apt description for those seasons in our life when we feel buried alive....
by Dorothy Greco | Dec 19, 2014 | Art, Photography, & Beauty, Blog, Friday Soul Food, iPhone Photos, Photography
This old railroad trestle is around the corner from where I grew up in Franklin, NJ. I’ve seen it hundreds of times but never photographed it until this fall. Shot with my Canon 7D and my 28-70 mm lens. Shot with my Canon 7D and 100 mm macro lens Stowe, VT. Shot...
by Dorothy Greco | Dec 12, 2014 | Blog, Book review, Friday Soul Food, Writing
Since I started following Jesus more than thirty years ago, I have had one mentor. One. This might be because I have a strong personality and other women wrongly assume I don’t need input. It might be because I’ve always been part of churches with a younger...
by Dorothy Greco | Dec 5, 2014 | At the Intersection of Faith & Culture, Blog, Friday Soul Food, Spirituality
Apparently, either my husband and I are non-traditionalists when it comes to Advent or really bad at following through. For the first twenty years of our married life, we had both high hopes and good intentions on December 1st. We’d buy an Advent calendar or put a...
by Dorothy Greco | Nov 14, 2014 | Blog, Friday Soul Food, Spirituality
I’d like to turn the clock back twenty years. I didn’t anticipate that the fifth decade of my life would include so much loss. Two funerals a month apart for friends who died from cancer. A relative having a diagnostic test this very hour to determine if she...
by Dorothy Greco | Nov 7, 2014 | Blog, Friday Soul Food, Spirituality
Two autumns ago, our world unraveled. My husband’s mother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and died. Our youngest son took a helmet to the neck in a football game and spent the next four weeks convalescing. I ran over someone’s dog. Our neighbor fell off his...