Katrina Pekich-Bundy, Author at The Presbyterian Outlook https://pres-outlook.org/author/katrina-pekich-bundy/ News and Articles from the The Presbyterian Outlook Thu, 30 May 2024 20:18:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.1 https://pres-outlook.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/outlook-logo.svg Katrina Pekich-Bundy, Author at The Presbyterian Outlook https://pres-outlook.org/author/katrina-pekich-bundy/ 32 32 Delighting in discomfort https://pres-outlook.org/2024/06/delighting-in-discomfort/ Wed, 05 Jun 2024 10:18:07 +0000 https://pres-outlook.org/?p=125488 During Ramadan, chaplain Katrina Pekich-Bundy drove Muslim students to a mosque on Fridays. Despite her efforts, she felt like an outsider — it was both uncomfortable and beautiful.

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]]> Lazy sabbath: A journey through parenthood and rest https://pres-outlook.org/2024/04/lazy-sabbath-a-journey-through-parenthood-and-rest/ Tue, 09 Apr 2024 10:17:05 +0000 https://pres-outlook.org/?p=123538 "To fully live into sabbath, maybe we need to admit to being lazy in the best kind of way," writes Katrina Pekich-Bundy.

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]]> Being a connectional church: Chaplains at GA https://pres-outlook.org/2022/08/being-a-connectional-church-chaplains-at-ga/ Thu, 18 Aug 2022 12:29:32 +0000 https://pres-outlook.org/?p=105044 Katrina Pekich-Bundy, who served as an on-call chaplain at GA225, reflects on the spiritual care available for commissioners and leaders at this assembly.

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]]> Community organizing as community investment https://pres-outlook.org/2022/04/community-organizing-as-community-investment/ Tue, 05 Apr 2022 12:36:13 +0000 https://pres-outlook.org/?p=95469 One of my spiritual practices is community organizing. I never imagined I would find God in organizing work, or that I would find it so essential in small churches and communities, but I have experienced the ways in which my own spiritual life and the welfare of the community benefit from this deeply theological ritual. I continue to turn back to Jeremiah 29:1-7, remembering that God calls us to seek the welfare of the community where we have been sent,

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]]> A prayerful pause: when community organizing is frustrating https://pres-outlook.org/2022/04/a-prayerful-pause-when-community-organizing-is-frustrating/ Fri, 01 Apr 2022 12:19:49 +0000 https://pres-outlook.org/?p=95476 The screams of hate against refugees, undocumented peoples, and children fuel a fire within me,
I embrace the fire and release the hate.
The uneducated, fearful shouts that spew misinformation in the atmosphere clogs my airways.
I breathe out the plaque of ignorance and breathe in the openness to the world.
The political signs that tell me I’m not welcome without using words cut to my core,
But my center is on God and the core cannot be shaken.

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]]> Retelling stories https://pres-outlook.org/2022/03/retelling-stories/ Tue, 22 Mar 2022 08:43:51 +0000 https://pres-outlook.org/?p=95139 I read voraciously when I visited the Alamo a few months ago. History has never been my interest, despite marrying a historian. Yet the Alamo intrigued me. My reading revealed a new narrative that pushes against the victorious American hero story many of us were taught. I learned that the Alamo was a Spanish mission to convert Indigenous people to Christianity and that the Texians were horribly massacred in their attempt to overthrow the Mexican government.

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]]> Experiencing God through art https://pres-outlook.org/2021/07/experiencing-god-through-art/ Wed, 28 Jul 2021 09:00:31 +0000 https://pres-outlook.org/?p=88208 God is experiential. This might be more easily embraced by Pentecostals   than Presbyterians (and I’ve been both), but Scripture affirms this claim. From the waters of creation, to the fire that called Moses, to the belly of the fish Jonah was well acquainted with, to the wind at Pentecost, we know that God speaks to God’s people in methods that we understand. Our God is a sensory-full God who reaches us through a variety of sensations.

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]]> Tapping soil and farming heritage, 3 synods grow food as a ministry https://pres-outlook.org/2013/08/tapping-soil-and-farming-heritage-3-synods-grow-food-as-a-ministry/ Wed, 28 Aug 2013 19:37:09 +0000 http://presoutlook.wpengine.com/2013/08/tapping-soil-and-farming-heritage-3-synods-grow-food-as-a-ministry/ Dig into the history of the nation’s heartland, and down nearly every country road you’ll find a common denominator: dirt.

 

Screen Shot 2013-08-12 at 7.35.32 PMSo when three synods in the central U.S. – the heartland of the country – decided to work together to form a common identity for ministry, they settled on the idea of using their shared natural resources (dirt) to grow food, and their produce as a means of ministry.

 

Three synods in the Midwest (Lakes and Prairies,

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