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...]
Christmas 2022: Presents? No, presence…
A link to YouTube video version is available at the end of the text Right here, right now is the eye of the Christmas storm. I love it when we get to Christmas Eve and we get to be here. Here’s … [Read more...]
On the 25th…
Today is the fourth day of Chanukah and there are four days left until Christmas. It is the perfect occasion to mention how they are connected. The Gospel of John (10:22) makes a passing reference to … [Read more...]
A good day for truth-telling…
Scroll down for a YouTube video version Fourth Sunday of Advent 2022. We are spitting distance from … [Read more...]
The Music Found Me
The music found me. It fingered my nerves like ivories, hammers on the strings pulling my toes up and down. All the way up the music moved -- my head side to side, my heart a beat faster. I was … [Read more...]
3 Advent: Trees
This is an Archive Sermon, from 2020, Year A in the Revised Common Lectionary. There is no video version this week. If I can be personal for a moment, I want to echo Wendell Berry’s poem about … [Read more...]
The Circle Be Unbroken
A shout out to Allen! I hope I’m spelling his name correctly. He is my senior by a number of years, I am guessing, but he is still running...and running...and running. Every day in fact. You may … [Read more...]
Reality Shift
A Youtube link for the video follows the text Let’s take this apart -- and then put it back together again. First of all, John the Baptist. He says to the leaders of the religion, ”...God is able … [Read more...]
In Celebration of the Herd
One party over, several more to go: Rohatsu (Bodhi Day) -- Buddhism Hanukkah -- Judaism The Unprecedented Martyrdoms -- Sikhism Winter Solstice -- Wicca and Paganism Christmas -- … [Read more...]
A stout and burly trust
Picture this scene. Martin Luther King, Jr. sits by himself in an anteroom with his head in his hands knowing that assassins are prowling the perimeter of his life. Even so he must go forth into … [Read more...]
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