Thank you. Thank you for sharing in this online spiritual community. I am humbled again and again by its reach across national boundaries and continents, across religious traditions and among those … [Read more...]
A word meditation for Thanksgiving
I have written about this before, and had the opportunity to talk about it in a recent public forum. It is about gratitude, and what better time to ponder gratitude than the day before … [Read more...]
A River of Gratitude
I was an adjunct professor for five years and taught an introduction to the primal narratives in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. As it turned out, for some students it was also a writing boot … [Read more...]
Gratitude then live…
Texts for Preaching this Week Matthew 6:25-33, and: "Messenger" by Mary Oliver My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird— equal seekers of sweetness. Here the … [Read more...]
To cry over a single blade of grass
For a video version scroll to the bottom of the following text Texts: Luke 24:36-48 and "What the Living Do" by Marie Howe In that poem we heard, Marie Howe is talking to her deceased brother, … [Read more...]
Thank You
Seneca Lake, NY A great quiet wind came through town this weekend and the ensuing hush was remarkable. On Saturday morning we rode our bicycles down to the waterfront and onto the Ontario Pathways … [Read more...]
Happy Thanksgiving – A Saucy Reduction
This is a "sermon reduction" - you know, like cooking down a sauce into something even more savory? This was a twelve minute sermon preached last Sunday, now reduced to 500 words for the newspaper. It … [Read more...]
The Healing of a Cool Rain on a Dark Morning
Six-thirty in the morning is dark again, an envelope of stillness as dog and I walk beneath the canopy of trees along the street. No other human or canine life was visible this morning, suppressed … [Read more...]
Happy Thanksgiving from subversivepreacher
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A Wedding!
When my oldest daughter was three years old she was passed from lap to lap in the parish hall of the church I was serving. Each Sunday between the early and late morning worship services, an … [Read more...]