Kristin Berkey-Abbott

Sunday, June 21, 2026

Father's Day and the Summer Solstice

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Today we have a variety of holidays to celebrate. People who have good relationships with their fathers, or people who have children, may b...
Saturday, June 20, 2026

TEEM Work and Other Anxieties

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It has been a strange week in terms of home renovations.  We're at a point where it makes sense to wait until the work of next week is d...
Friday, June 19, 2026

Liberation Holidays: Juneteenth

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Today we celebrate our newest federal holiday:  Juneteenth.  Of course, many populations have been celebrating Juneteenth since the news of ...
Thursday, June 18, 2026

The Rethinking of Mary Magdalene Gets Wider Acceptance

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I have been listening to a fascinating interview between Diana Butler Bass and Elizabeth Schrader-Polczer.  Several years ago, Bass preache...
Wednesday, June 17, 2026

More Thoughts on Tiredness and Home Repairs

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We had good news at the fixer-upper house in Spartanburg yesterday.  The kitchen sink had very low pressure, but the rest of the house is fi...
Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Happy Bloomsday!

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I only care about Bloomsday as a sort of cosmic accident. When I got to grad school and pored over the list of classes I could take, I disco...
Monday, June 15, 2026

Sermon Revisions, Poem Revisions

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It's been a good week-end, with our attention shifting from home repairs to church work.  I usually have a rough draft of my sermon writ...
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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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