Kristin Berkey-Abbott

Monday, December 15, 2025

Cold Weather, Cozy Evenings, and the Relentless Drip of Bad News

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For the past several weeks, I've gotten up on Sunday mornings and studied weather reports.  I've enlarged screens to better study th...
Sunday, December 14, 2025

Winter Weather and Sunday Drives

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The wind howls outside, and it is forecast to keep howling.  I've been awake for hours, working on my sermon and looking at maps and rad...
Saturday, December 13, 2025

The Feast Day of Santa Lucia

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Today is the feast day of Santa Lucia, a woman in 4th century Rome during a time of horrible persecution of Christians and much of the rest ...
Friday, December 12, 2025

Teaching Insights from a Great Semester

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Before I get too far away from Fall semester, I want to record some teaching insights that I want to remember.  I've just gotten teachin...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

Returning to Bethlehem Again

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I spent much of yesterday doing volunteer work, but not the traditional kind.  I haven't been stocking the food pantry or knitting scarv...
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Publication Ponderings in Mid-December

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I woke up this morning thinking about publication opportunities as the year draws to a close.  There are book contests that seem interesting...
Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Noah's Wife Reads the Realtor.com Listings

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It's a climate change/catastrophe winter break, in terms of my reading.  I zoomed through Ian McEwin's What We Can Know --in some wa...
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Kristin Berkey-Abbott
A poet, a scholar, a teacher, a wanna-be mystic--always wrestling with the temptation to run away to join an intentional community--but would it be contemplative? social justice oriented? creative? in the mountains? in the inner city?--may as well stay planted and wrestle with these tensions and contradictions here, at the edge of America.
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