I am going to tell a story first told in Deuteronomy 34:1-12 and continued in Matthew 22:34-46. In a long forgotten, overgrown unmarked grave on a barren hillside overlooking a landscape of … [Read more...]
Learning from Experience, Denial, or Willful Resistance to Learning
This is my pre-election column. By the time next Wednesday arrives the volume of campaign noise will be more deafening than it is now. Next week will be deep breathing and mindfulness … [Read more...]
Marked
Video & Text Versions Sermon Text What person in your life, or even historical figure, comes to mind when I say, “Marked by God.” We’re in a bit of a quandary in the … [Read more...]
Look Up
“I lift up my eyes to the hills from where is my help to come...” Psalm 121 For flatlanders the hills have always been holy places of mystery. There is a pantheon of famous peaks hosting a panoply … [Read more...]
Your Place at the Table
SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO FORMAT This is down and dirty. We heard the Gibbon’s read Matthew’s allegorizing of a parable and now I want to give you what may be an earlier version of it. The … [Read more...]
Poked by Hope
In his column last week, Michael Fitzgerald went digging for silver linings in the dark clouds hanging over our heads these days. In her reflection on personal mortality, into which she invited the … [Read more...]
Inheritance of a Wound
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Eckhard_Jakob SERMON TEXT (for video scroll down) Welcome to Trinity Place in Geneva, NY. For reference if you care to read them, the texts for today's sermon … [Read more...]
Every Bottom is Different
Every bottom is different. No, I am not referring to human anatomy. The bottom to which I am pointing is a mythical place where alcoholics and drug abusers meet their moment of recovery. Often it is a … [Read more...]
Which No is a Yes? A Yes a No?
Scroll down for link to YouTube version. On a yes day things are what they seem but on a no day the world might swing wrong. That’s not quite how Ralph Burns wrote the verses but it’s … [Read more...]
A Harvest Metaphor
A friend shared with me an image that won’t stop fluttering in my thoughts. Sometimes that is not such a good thing, but in this case it is a pleasure. Picture if you will, an intensely blue autumn … [Read more...]
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