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December 2024

December 07, 2024
Perhaps my favorite thing about the Christmas season—just a few days away—is reminding myself and...

November 2024

November 24, 2024
Jesus' metaphor of 'king' is a focus this Sunday in my own tradition (Episcopal). And...
November 12, 2024
For many, it has been a hard week. We all must seek deep solace now...

October 2024

October 29, 2024
Have you, at times, longed for a pathway forward—whether a way out of a stuck...
October 14, 2024
Recently while watching the film Supernova, I heard this quote: “We will not starve for...
October 07, 2024
In 2006, in a time of precarity and despair, some magic happened upon me. Shortly...

September 2024

September 24, 2024
As I approach accompanied by crickets, the sky’s palette ranges from turquoise to dark violet;...
September 11, 2024
I recently heard a Vox podcast about regret. The interviewee, Daniel Pink, wrote a book...
September 05, 2024
It is one of those weeks where everywhere I turn, folks are talking about the...

August 2024

August 27, 2024
Roughly seven years ago; late-summer day under a New Mexico sky, the blue of which...
August 23, 2024
The most inspiring words I’ve heard in the past several years are from a speech...
August 06, 2024
If you have yet to dip your toes into Succession, the HBO series that ended...

July 2024

July 30, 2024
{Meditation on John 6:24-35}. Imagine that someone you love is terminally ill, needing healing, and...
July 23, 2024
In a guestroom, I have a little wooden plaque that says, “Just live your little...
July 16, 2024
I've long appreciated Yuval Noah Harari’s book Sapiens(2014). And I recently enjoyed a discussion of...
July 02, 2024
{A meditation on Mark 6:1-13} Jesus was a small-town guy. His village of Nazareth had...

June 2024

June 24, 2024
The hay now rises to shoulder-height and I walk a path around the field mowed...
June 18, 2024
I’m part of a tradition that uses the lectionary, and this coming Sunday, one of...
June 11, 2024
Transformation beats moralism. But as a young adult, effort was my mantra. And effort, coupled...
June 03, 2024
It is there as I do the things I love—from drinking my morning latte to...

May 2024

May 28, 2024
This week in my tradition we read the story about Nicodemus. But I can’t think...
May 22, 2024
A friend I’ve known for 25 years, who lives on the other side of the...
May 14, 2024
Today I played Kate Rusby’s ‘Hourglass’ and was transported to years living in St. Andrews,...
May 06, 2024
Someone famous said having children is like having your heart run around in someone else’s...

April 2024

April 29, 2024
To what extent can humans know and understand God? a reader asks. In answering, I...
April 24, 2024
For many millennials (not to mention others), Taylor Swift is a religious experience. One such...
April 15, 2024
Since the release of ChatGPT[1] a little over a year ago, many have posed the...
April 08, 2024
“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope...
April 03, 2024
I didn’t intend to become a spokesperson for tradition. Of those who know me best,...
April 01, 2024
Of late, I am wooed by Ernest Becker, specifically his book The Denial of Death,...
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