TEXTS for Preaching: "Dust" by Doriane Laux and Mark 2:23-3:6 (Oh, and don't forget Deuteronomy 5:12-15!) “Someone spoke to me last night, told me the truth. Just a few words, but I recognized … [Read more...]
Stop
This post appeared first in the series, "Denim Spirit," published weekly by The Finger Lakes Times (NY). It is hard to stop. Hard to stop long enough for all the parts, movements, and voices … [Read more...]
Stop
This post appeared first in the series, "Denim Spirit," published weekly by The Finger Lakes Times (NY). It is hard to stop. Hard to stop long enough for all the parts, movements, and … [Read more...]
Pain & Suffering
This post appeared first in The Finger Lakes Times(NY), under the column heading, "Denim … [Read more...]
The voice without self-interest
Text for Preaching This Week: John 10:1-10 and "Flock" by Billy Collins I knew a bishop once who would proudly announce, every time there was a procession of diocesan clergy bedecked in their … [Read more...]
Listening to Time
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Listening to Time
This first appeared as a weekly column in The Finger Lakes Times: http://www.fltimes.com/opinion/denim-spirit-tuning-in-listening-to-time/article_1405159a-0404-11e7-b6ca-77e1b60d4498.html Can you feel … [Read more...]
Did you hear it?
Did you hear it? I did. Some of you did too. This is our first anniversary, you and I. I began at Trinity last year on the second Sunday of Epiphany, Martin Luther King weekend. Whether you … [Read more...]
Listening to the world all around rather than only what has to do with us
On a recent morning, cup of coffee in hand, sitting on my bench in the meadow behind my house, dog chewing her most recent stick acquisition, I counted the bird songs. I was remembering how … [Read more...]
Awakening the Voices of the Wounded Within
“We do not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious.” (Carl Jung) “You do not have to be good… you only have to let the soft animal of your body love … [Read more...]