“Co-dependency” emerged as a buzzword in my profession more than a decade ago, and became a catch-all phrase for a dysfunctional congregation. The concept springs from studies observing the long-term … [Read more...]
Don’t Turn Your Back on the Moment
“If you turn your back on such a moment and hurry along to business as usual, it may lose you the ball game. If you throw your arms around such a moment and hug it like crazy, it may save your … [Read more...]
Getting Uncomfortable
What a difference a week can make. Last Wednesday I extolled the wrongly maligned frigid cold of winter and its peculiar graces, and Monday this week, I walked my dog along the Geneva lakefront in … [Read more...]
Remember When They Got Mad at You?
Somewhere in the recesses of your life burrows the memory of a time when you angered your family. I do not know what you did, of course, but I am pretty sure whatever it was, they got doggone … [Read more...]
The Grace of Winter
I read somewhere along the line about wintering strategies for some tribes in Northern Michigan, back when life was good and European invaders few and far between. This was up in Michilimackinac, a … [Read more...]
A Moment that Changed the History of the World
I preached on Nehemiah and Luke three years ago – the last time they surfaced for air. That was the Sunday I gave the now apocryphal sermon in which I said I could be a midwife for Trinity, or a … [Read more...]
Some Parenting Advice
It flashes back in my memory as if just yesterday: a six-month-old baby on my shoulder and a three-year old holding my hand as we walked into the grocery. Without warning the three-year-old collapsed … [Read more...]
In Search of the “Golden Number”
As I sat down to write this sermon, I wondered if there would be anyone to hear it given the dire predictions of a winter storm. But then I remembered there is a grand internet congregation … [Read more...]
Mary Oliver, Thank You
Mary Oliver, thank you. The simple elegance of your poems exquisitely mirrors what is miraculous in nature – that out of seemingly simple elements placed in fortunate proximity and serendipitous … [Read more...]
When I Am Dead and Gone
Did you ever ask yourself: When you are dead and gone what will they say about you? Surely at a funeral, or reading someone’s obituary? Maybe you played that group ice-breaker game in which you’re … [Read more...]
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