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April 2026

April 14, 2026
My Best Work Happens When My Mind Feels Quiet Over the past two years, I...

March 2026

March 30, 2026
“But I thought, of the wren's singing, what could this be if it isn't a...
March 09, 2026
Almost a month ago, I decided for this year’s Lent to dive into Spanish practice...

February 2026

February 16, 2026
Lost in Translation: My Spanish Misadventures For some time, I’ve had good intentions to practice...

January 2026

January 22, 2026
Why 2016 Feels Like the End of the Before-Times Yesterday I had to search “What...
January 14, 2026
A Return to a Time of Worry This week I was inadvertently transported back to...
January 01, 2026
We do not experience our lives apart from the stories we tell of our lives....

December 2025

December 22, 2025
The Subversive Witness of Christmas Often at Christmas I share a series of articles about...
December 08, 2025
“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” —Berthold Auerbach Rethinking What...
December 02, 2025
Admitting the Weight We Carry During a recent deep conversation with a friend, we both...

November 2025

November 08, 2025
Truth and the Loss of Control It seems at least once in our adult lives,...

October 2025

October 26, 2025
If anything distinguishes ancient life from modern life—with our constant connectivity via the internet and...
October 13, 2025
I often hear people question the existence of God because of theodicy, which is the...
October 02, 2025
If you or someone close to you has a chronic illness, defined as “a health...

September 2025

September 22, 2025
In 2003, during a period of change in myself and my life, I wrote and...
September 07, 2025
When I moved from Oregon’s Willamette Valley to the north Oregon coast in 2004, it...

August 2025

August 24, 2025
Lately I’ve been thinking about curses. As in cursing people. This sounds violent, I know;...
August 14, 2025
Home for me is northwest Oregon—the kingdom of wild blackberries. Every summer, come August, briars...
August 05, 2025
Even people who are not followers of Jesus often acknowledge that he was a spiritual...

July 2025

July 21, 2025
In last Sunday's lectionary reading (Luke 10:38-42) we get to glimpse a friendship—that of Jesus...
July 17, 2025
A friend once told me, “I wish Christianity wasn’t such a wimpy religion! You know,...
July 07, 2025
“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope...

June 2025

June 21, 2025
Most Sundays I bend at the altar and hold the chalice of wine steady as...
June 09, 2025
Serving threshold congregations is my subject today. By this, I mean small congregations on the...

May 2025

May 25, 2025
In the milieu I grew up in, it seemed nothing was worse than being called...
May 19, 2025
In the long passage this Sunday's lectionary reading is from, often called the ‘Farewell Discourses,’...
May 05, 2025
Today in my car, I played Kate Rusby’s ‘Hourglass,’ which I hadn’t heard in ages,...

April 2025

April 23, 2025
On the surface, this week’s lectionary reading at the end of John (John 20:19-31) is...
April 14, 2025
So many words could describe the current administration’s actions. Among the most salient might be...
April 04, 2025
Recently, a friend offered me a book she'd found at Goodwill. It is my memoir,...
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