Across the thumb-shaped north end of the lake, if your vantage point is near the mouth of the Lake Tunnel, there is a puffed up open expanse of farmland. By my reckoning it runs between the Geneva … [Read more...]
Crossroad — prophets, prophetic moments, and us
I want to tell you the tale of two prophetic moments. One came from a man in poor health in his mid-70s, and the other from a young teenager. First Paul. The first thing to note about Paul was … [Read more...]
A Monday in Geneva
I moved to Geneva on a Saturday in January. I wasn’t supposed to begin work as the minister at Trinity Church on South Main for a week, except it was Martin Luther King weekend and the celebration was … [Read more...]
Assimilating in Babylon
Texts for Preaching: Isaiah 49:1-7 and an excerpt from a speech Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered at St. John the Divine (NYC) on the second anniversary of the Supreme Court decision Brown v Board of … [Read more...]
Wild Geese in the Clouds
The ceiling has hung low in the darkness of these mornings, shrouding the dawn in a blanket of clouds. Sunrise and moonrise have been hidden by winter gray padding the the skies while keeping the sun … [Read more...]
Really, no really…
We understand something about water this week that perhaps we don’t often consider. As is so often true, nature opened our eyes. An atmospheric river in the heavens moving across the … [Read more...]
Moon Rise
Did you ever see the full moon rise? I can’t remember ever watching a moonrise before my neighbor, Jill, told us about it last summer. Standing out on long pier on a clear evening, we oohed and aahed … [Read more...]
Black Holes and Schrodinger’s cat, Oh, and Jesus too!
I try to understand, I really do. I read and re-read about cool new information coming to us from the study of Black Holes. It was a New York Times article about Einstein’s own argument with … [Read more...]
Happy New Year!
Remember when it was cold?
I am writing this on December 24th shortly after walking Rabia in four degrees with a minus-sixteen windchill. By the time you read this we’ll be peering into fifty degree weather. My first thought … [Read more...]
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