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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,...

March 2024

March 27, 2024
In the early days of the pandemic, I published an article in a small literary...
March 27, 2024
  Of late, some of my closest companions are animals—several cats and one dog. With...
March 20, 2024
A courageous woman dousing a man’s head with perfume; a conniving betrayer; a feast; jealous...
March 13, 2024
What is revelation? My definition broadens almost by the day. Sometimes I hear measures of...
March 05, 2024
Serving threshold congregations is my subject today. By this, I mean small congregations on the...

February 2024

February 19, 2024
Forgiveness is slow. Have you tried to forgive someone who devastated you with no real...
February 13, 2024
A few years ago, I created a practice that brought Lent to life for me—a...
February 06, 2024
“Many things occur between God and [humans] which escape the attention even of those to...

January 2024

January 29, 2024
We are in a time. Long before the pandemic, separation and polarization had come to...
January 16, 2024
In his book Outliers: The Story of Success, author Malcolm Gladwell tells about a mid-century...
January 09, 2024
For a period eight years ago, my dreams grew loud. I would awaken to fragments...
January 02, 2024
These days have me remembering a book from the early 2000s that impacted me—a book...

December 2023

December 23, 2023
In our Christmas morning lectionary reading, Mary is greeted by the angel Gabriel as “the...
December 16, 2023
Have you found yourself in such intense struggle you could barely find a path forward?...
December 11, 2023
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December 04, 2023
Arranging and sharing a Christmas playlist of the best faith-based Christmas songs in hopes they...
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