Jenna Pelias

2019-06-12

I was doing my hair in the little bathroom of the basement apartment we were renting at the time. We were taking the young adults at our church on a weekend...

2018-10-28

I’ve heard it said that the thing you don’t want to do, is probably the thing you most need to do. When I signed up for seminary this summer, I thought...

2018-09-23

Here Sheepy-Sheepy (rescue me) by Jenna Pelias  September 23, 2018 My husband and I have been talking about church and ministry and all-that-stuff a fair...

2018-07-26

“This is heavenly.” We oh so casually describe a great many things as heavenly or divine or simply out of this world. Scrumptious meals, fragrant bouquets...

2018-05-05

We tend to track our lives in numbers and milestones. Firsts and lasts, birthdays, anniversaries, miles, days, weeks, years. Until and since. Before and...

2018-03-10

If She Had Been A Man #metoo I was thinking yesterday about how things would have been different had the woman who attacked me at church been a man. Had...

2018-01-11

When we moved to Regina this past summer, we found ourselves in a landscape experiencing drought. Utility meter boxes were exploding and catching fire...

2017-04-19

A HOLY RIOT or, the time Jesus threw down at the temple by Jenna Pelias April 18, 2017 There was a lecture I heard once about the time that Jesus made...

2016-12-29

DEVOTION When hindsight breathes life into the New Year.  By Jenna Pelias We stopped participating in formal church activity for a couple of years once...

2016-12-23

I felt her crawling into my bed that morning before my eyes were open. Blankets rustling as she shimmied her way 2 inches from my face, she didn’t even...