Thank you. Just thank you. ”My work is loving the world...” Mary Oliver begins her poem, “Messenger.” It is worth looking up for a Thanksgiving reflection. There is too much “prosperity” … [Read more...]
To Get Attention
I once worked among fifty thousand students and twenty-five thousand faculty and staff on the campus of a major university. The church where I worked was the only non-university building on campus. … [Read more...]
Who do you think is the most afraid?
Who are the most fearful people in America? Can you guess? Let’s see if your instinct was correct. Just 3% of Americans own half the guns -- that little group owns 133 million guns. I know, that is … [Read more...]
Small Voices
It always comes back to this, as Mary Oliver wrote. Nature, the power of its voice. It was the grass that caught my eye, as does a twinkle of light in the dark. In the state park, just past the … [Read more...]
It’s Coming
It has been a beautiful autumn so far. Record warmth has postponed peak foliage around much of upstate and the Adirondacks. Autumn is the flamboyant show of nature that makes living here rather than … [Read more...]
Through the Portal of Memory
My dad was tall and lanky. He moved slowly, was deliberate and precise with his motions, and also with the work of his hands. He was the kind of guy who put on an old pair of suit pants with the … [Read more...]
He Got Religion
The columnist David Brooks got religion. That’s not a metaphor. Sometime in the last few years he had a religious awakening and it sure has changed what he writes about. Previously, and maybe … [Read more...]
Good Government
...All health care workers in New York State, at hospitals and nursing homes, are to be vaccinated against COVID-19 with the first dose received by Monday, September 27, and staff at other covered … [Read more...]
The Origins of Autumnal Nostalgia
My neighbor’s black-eyed Susans are still vibrant. Their round black eyes are bigger now, bulging out from yellow faces. But that chroma of yellow! No human concocted hue comes close to that screaming … [Read more...]
This is not an obituary, it is about loving wastefully
“The older I get, the more deeply I believe but the fewer beliefs I have,” (RNS) said John Shelby Spong in 2013 at the age of 82. He just died at 90. Spong graduated from college the year before I … [Read more...]
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