After thirty-plus years of preaching sermons flow naturally. The rhythm of my week more or less moves between the banks of sermon preparation and sermon delivery. Sunday after church, I pop the … [Read more...]
A Bloody Mess
This sermon is a bloody mess. Literally. This story from Genesis 15 depicts a bloody mess, and it is the mythology underneath a bloody mess. First of all, we should notice some huge problems … [Read more...]
Opening the Mind with a New Lens
Some teacher, sometime along the way, likely soured you on poetry. It was done by making you read stiff poems, written in an alien parlance with old-fashioned metaphors, and then insisting you explain … [Read more...]
Gratitude is Prime
I wish I could show you the photograph I took of my dog, Rabia, positioned like the Great Sphinx in front of the fireplace on a ten-degree morning. Behind her the gas fire roasting her backside, … [Read more...]
Dance Interrupted
There is a dance between our dreams and vocation that can be interrupted when ambition cuts in. Sometimes we stumble upon what becomes our joy when pursuing a dream from childhood. I knew a … [Read more...]
Ash Wednesday: Constitutionally Good, Economically Not So Much
One of my favorite poems, whose author is not known, goes like this (Slightly paraphrased): The sacred pearl.. has been bitten, priced, and strung around blasphemous necks; andthe Tree at the … [Read more...]
Cloud Dancing Without Wings
Honestly, I am more of a rabbi than a priest, although I wouldn’t stack up intellectually with most of the rabbis I have known. I say I am more rabbi than priest, because I am much more … [Read more...]
Healthcare in the Days of Rage
In these angry days of national division, I have been thinking about that old trope of crazy advice from Jesus, to “love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray … [Read more...]
Dog & Cat Owners Unite!
So cold the snow crystalized, a weightless carpet of white gleaming diamonds in vivid moonlight and again in the even colder morning wringing moisture from the air. Thank you, Rabia, for getting my … [Read more...]
Re-inventing Christianity
I might have gotten in trouble with some of you last week because I went inside Luke’s story about Jesus and swung a wrecking ball around and re-interpreted the story from my own the perspective … [Read more...]
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