SPR AI MA Mary Strachan Scriver UP AGAINST IT Building inspectors don’t get no respect even though our wealth and safety depend on them. The least likely mine of wisdom I’ve acquired…
MA Mary Strachan Scriver CIRCUIT-RIDING AS ORDEAL When Emil Gudmundson and Russell Lockwood set up the UUMontana Ministry circuit-riding structure (1982–85) it hinged on my willingness to…
MA Mary Strachan Scriver APRIL, SNOWING Late Spring snowstorms create a mood that suits my indignation at the state of the world and my impatience with ten cats who think my…
TCH HUM SCI MA Mary Strachan Scriver SEA CHANGES SEEN AS THEOLOGICAL The real consequences of shifting social thought are illustrated in people’s lives, maybe never more that in the lives of ministers — who…
HUM SPR MA Mary Strachan Scriver When I was in seminary I lived in a large old house where students were each allotted a bedroom… He did not address groups. He went to the temple and sat waiting until someone came who had questions and gifts. They presented both and…
ART SPR MA Mary Strachan Scriver SCRIVER’S RELIGIOUS ART Bob Scriver ended up doing religious sculptures in a roundabout way. One could say that the first Christian statue he did was a cement…