What Is Love? Bookgroup 2.0 coming soon!
The second greatest commandment of the Christian faith is to love our neighbors. But what, exactly, is love? What are its characteristics, what does it look like in action, and … Read More
The second greatest commandment of the Christian faith is to love our neighbors. But what, exactly, is love? What are its characteristics, what does it look like in action, and … Read More
Love brought us together today. You may be here because you wanted to be together with family. Or maybe a dear friend invited you to celebrate Easter with them. Maybe … Read More
“The Man with the Keys” On this, the birthday of my father, it seemed good to me and the Holy Spirit to let his life preach a bit. Prayer: We … Read More
The Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year C For the second week in a row, we hear part of Jesus’s Farewell Address to his disciples, prior to the final events of … Read More
Easter Sunday, Year C Here we are once again, standing at the entrance to an empty tomb. Throughout our lives we have looked for hope, for meaning and purpose, for … Read More
A Good Word Press your ear against her breast, at the exact moment he speaks her name,plucking the middle, leap-for-joy C stringof her heart. This other Mary imaging shemet a … Read More
Easter 7 Every year at this time one of my parishioners used to remind me that Mother’s Day was nearly impossible for him. He had been abused horribly by his … Read More
When my colleague and I traveled out to Flint, we had already read some of the horrific stories of people getting sick and dying, of city and state government officials maligning the residents, and of the history of the river itself contaminated in many different ways. What we encountered when we went there was a community that acted out of their understanding of the gospel to love and serve the world. … Read More
The Good Shepherd The first time I served as the clergy with cure, in other words, the clergy with charge for the care of a congregation, was in Northern Nevada. … Read More
Most of us are wounded. Most of us hide our wounds. We carry around our shame, grief and blame secretly. When we feel wronged and are suffering from an injustice we are like the psalmist who cries out, “How long, you people, shall my honor suffer shame? How long will you love vain words, and seek after lies?”… Read More