by Amy Butler | May 16, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
I’ve always been of the opinion that storytelling is the most powerful tool in a preacher’s toolkit. This is largely because I learned how to preach from one of the best storytellers I’ve ever met, Jim Somerville, who can spin a yarn like no other person I know. But...
by Amy Butler | May 8, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
We’re deep into Easter season, these days following that high-attendance Sunday where everyone looks especially festive, and we engage in the sacred ritual of hunting for eggs in the churchyard. We held an Easter egg hunt at my church this year, and we emerged on the...
by Amy Butler | Mar 30, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
Someone asked me last week what I had given up for Lent this year. I’m a bit embarrassed to say that her question caught me off guard because I haven’t given anything up for Lent, and I’m her new pastor. I suppose I could easily compose an entire list of excuses for...
by Amy Butler | Mar 3, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
For over three decades, the soundtrack of my travel home to Honolulu that began as soon as the airplane landed on the coral reef runway and taxied toward the gate was the Beamers’ song, “Honolulu City Lights.” The song is a wistful goodbye to the islands that would...
by Amy Butler | Feb 20, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
When I think of what it must be like to be my therapist, I imagine the job feels like some combination of working as a farrier in a long-neglected barn and waiting every week for the next season of “The White Lotus” on HBO. I like to work hard in therapy, most of the...
