Well, preparing for today was humbling and challenging. Last week, inspired by the birth of my grandson, I reached for the intangible. I sought to capture an experience rather than define or … [Read more...]
A Limit to Free Speech?
“Platform” is a word the tech industry likes to use. Facebook provides a digital connection platform. Uber offers a transportation platform. Twitter is a “real-time, open information … [Read more...]
Quivering Over the Unity of Past-Present-Future
Well, there is nothing to bring on Advent like waiting for a baby to be born, and nothing harder than trying to write a sermon than when your daughter is in labor. Young Declan Miller-Uueda was … [Read more...]
Mulching Days
Thanksgiving in Philadelphia is not exactly the New England poem’s image of “to grandmother’s house we go.” But from Boston, Detroit, Columbus, and Geneva we did go, traveling to gather around the … [Read more...]
This is personal
This is personal. It turns out that in the age of Amazon and Kindle, 99% of authors must depend upon their own network of friends, family, and colleagues to not only buy their books, but also to … [Read more...]
Happy Thanksgiving – A Saucy Reduction
This is a "sermon reduction" - you know, like cooking down a sauce into something even more savory? This was a twelve minute sermon preached last Sunday, now reduced to 500 words for the newspaper. It … [Read more...]
Spiritual Symmetry
There is a phobia or syndrome whose name I’ve forgotten, in which anxiety is centered in the dread of a human structure collapsing. When looking at a bridge for example, or a tall building, the … [Read more...]
Time In-Between
Well here we are, Nature’s in-between, as when the clothes are picked up off the floor but the bed still isn’t made. It snowed last night but more than a few trees are clutching their pale yellow … [Read more...]
Written on the pages of your life
In spiritual direction there is an exercise – more than that really, a concept – that sometimes helps with tracing the movement of God in one’s life. It is the idea that our lives, our life … [Read more...]
The Morning After
It is the morning after. The sun came up gilding tomorrow with hope or lacing your heart with despair. But what is the difference between hope, wishful thinking, or conversely, despair? We need to … [Read more...]
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