After I posted my post yesterday a few things happened to play into this conversation…. I received a couple of emails from someone I would think knows me fairly well. This person knows that I am a pastor. I am ordained. I thought she knows that I really struggle with not being able to work…
Author: pastorcourt
Courtney McHill has been in ministry for over 10 years and is travelling the world in search of pilgrimage and new life. What is it to be theological in different spaces? What are we searching for? What will we find about God, our world and ourselves?
Being seen
This morning, after a lovely evening last night, I got up a little later than I have been this week (7:30am…sleeping in!) and wandered into the shower. I followed my morning routine of setting up the coffee and letting it brew while I take the dogs out on our morning walk. We have been back…
People I know: Jim
This is Jim and his amazing wife Faye (I will probably talk about Faye another day since she has her own story that is incredible). Jim and I probably met when I was a teenager although I think neither one of us really knows when or how but we re met in my last months…
Camino Countdown
We start our second Camino journey from St. Jean in just…. 233 days from today! I did the math. I made a countdown on my computer and am pondering what that looks like over the next 9ish months before we take our first steps out of St. Jean and on to Santiago. This week that…
People I know: Erin
This is Erin… Erin and I met in a bar in the fall of 2016 (or so). Our wives, now both ex wives, were both parts of groups that decided that this particular night both groups would go to this particular bar and we came along to hang out with them. Erin and I ended…
People I know (a new blog series): Jon
Lately I have been thinking about the people I know and how incredible their stories are and who they are as humans. Ever since my dear friend Geoff died this year I have been thinking about how I want to honor the people I love in my life, highlight their incredible natures and I keep…
It’s official…Camino 2020 is happening!
Scout and I met in the winter of 2015 when I traveled from McMinnville to Portland, completely heartbroken to be leaving McMinnville, to visit what would be my new church and meet with their council. Rose City Park was ready to meet me that winter evening. My soon to be wife at the time and…
Being home, returning home, and a resolution or two…
We have been back in Berlin for almost 24 hours from being in Oregon for three weeks. This morning as I took the pups on a walk and stood in the midst of confetti and frost, I thought, “well, this seems like a good representation of how we returned.” Berlin is known for it’s crazy…
The expat in betweeness around holidays
As the windows around our neighborhood start to look like this and gather more and more decorations I have really started thinking about the holidays as an expat. This is one of those constant things that you start to think about when you live abroad from the place you came from. Increasingly and especially around…
Giving Thanks
Last year, when I was still fairly new to the city and we knew winter was coming and promised to be long and while the pups were elsewhere, Ana and I sublet our apartment for all of November and rented a place on the sea on the southern coast of Spain in a little town…
Living in Violet 