Okay, this is about eschatology. Yep, I knew that would move you to the edge of your chair! So, we are sitting between Isaiah and Jesus this morning, and it is like pulling at both ends of a … [Read more...]
The Spirituality of Beech
Well, stick season is upon us. Sure, there is still a passel of trees along city streets with limp yellow or curled brown leaves hanging on – overachievers that will soon succumb. Oaks may be the … [Read more...]
A Data-Driven Theology
“I know that my redeemer lives.” That line in Job seems pretty clear and it forms the heart of the anthem that begins the Episcopal burial liturgy. Clearly the Lectionary Committee that … [Read more...]
The Bridge to April
It is a new day and election result are now out in the open. Here in the Finger Lakes, lawn-sign season ends as of today. Along with limp Halloween decorations, front yards and curbsides get emptied … [Read more...]
All Saints’ and Then Some
I read those dog-eared and familiar old words from the Gospel of Luke and started laughing. As if my preacher-life was passing before my eyes, thirty-nine years of varied and contradictory … [Read more...]
A Question Before You Vote
Edwin Friedman was an author and leadership consultant well-known for his family systems approach whether working with an individual or organization. A primary assumption of family systems theory is … [Read more...]
Wisdom v. Reaction
I am going to zero in on something I almost never talk about. See if you can figure out what it is before I get there. When I read that poem, “Hitchhiker” a dozen contradictory … [Read more...]
Navigating Epochal Change
Jamming this into five-hundred words for a newspaper column is complicated, but stay with me here. It is also important. Culture is a lens, one given to us at birth and adjusted throughout our … [Read more...]
Get Ready to Rumble…with God!
Today, once again, the gospel reveals the uncomfortable dinner table argument between a radical first century Palestinian peasant and the well-educated upper class Westernized Christianity that … [Read more...]
When there is no place to go to the bathroom
I spent the Columbus Day weekend in Philadelphia. I have a grandson there, as well as my daughter and her husband, I should add. My wife and I often remark that we didn’t know grandparenting was a … [Read more...]
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