Diana Butler Bass+

Thank You, Dolly, for “High-Heeled Thoughts”

A poem from Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer on a sad day

Sunday Musings

Imperial Field Trip!

Cottage Reader

August 2026

Sunday Musings

Nevertheless, she persisted

Sunday Musings

Just turn the boat around

Sunday Musings

Compassion is the miracle

History and Slavery

The stories we tell create possibilities for the future

Sunday Musings

It's a Parabalooza!

Mary Magdalene's Day!

On 7/22, Christians celebrate one of the two most important New Testament women. Yet, Mary Magdalene has been long shrouded in mystery and misunderstanding. Scholars are changing that.

Sunday Musings

A meditation on rocks and hope

Parables & Pentecost

The entire summer series in a single post!

Sunday Musings

Stories that confound

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

The final Cottage conversation on Parables & Pentecost

The Parable of the Talents

Listen now | Let us give thanks for the whistleblowers

An Unexpected July 4

Visiting a crypt was no picnic

Dear Mr. Whitman...

A poem from Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Debie Thomas

A Cottage conversation on the parables

The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Bridesmaids

Listen now | Worst wedding ever

Sunday Musings

Imagine hospitality

A Backyard Parable

Friday morning at the Cottage

RUINING BREAKFAST with Diana & Tripp

America 250 edition

The Parable of the Wicked Tenants

Listen now | The Paradigm-Shift

Sunday Musings

The lectionary serves up a story about hating one's parents on Father's Day. Ugh.

Friday Thoughts

A content-full week at the Cottage wraps up with gratitude and a gentle invitation

Sunday Musings

If-then and the grammar of spirituality

Cottage Reader

May 2026

Copy That

Planet Earth, you are a crew

Sunday Musings

The spaciousness of God

Now We Are Six

Happy birthday to the Cottage!

Sunday Musings

Good Shepherd Sunday

Sunday Musings

I Am or We Are?

Woe to Those Who Manipulate Religion

Pope Leo and Donald Trump - this is serious theology not the UFC

Ruining Dinner is BACK!

Join me and Tripp Fuller on Wednesday, April 15

Sunday Musings

Doubt and love together

Remember the Moon, Know Who She Is*

Awe and wonder above

The Warmonger of Easter

Don't let evil force us back into the tomb

Easter Sunday Musings

The graveyard becomes a garden

Holy Saturday

The final Lenten moment from the Cottage

Good Friday

Seeing Jesus' execution anew

Welcome to the Table

The Holy Thursday Revolution

Holy Week: Wednesday

A Lenten Moment at the Cottage

Holy Week: Tuesday

A Lenten Moment from the Cottage

Holy Week: Monday

A Lenten Moment from the Cottage

Palm Sunday Musings: No King But Jesus*

Jesus' resistance rally