Living Radically During Lent
Several years ago I read the book by Father Daniel Homan, OSB and Lonni Collins Pratt titled Radical Hospitality: Benedict’s Way of Love. An easy book to read, it offers real stories of regular people...
View ArticleOf Janis Joplin and Christian Women (Owed to Being Unladylike)
I was three-years old the first time I heard Janis Joplin’s “Mercedes Benz” on the radio. In 1971, Dad (though not a fan of rock and roll) thought it quite funny, and we heard it several times during a...
View ArticleStanding Your Ground
I just read the most interesting article today and it really gave me pause. Apparently, in Florida, the handgun lobby has become so powerful that they were able to get a law passed that gives you the...
View ArticleThe Perfect Church
I once went to the perfect church. The people were warm and inviting.It was obvious that the people loved and cared for one another – but they didn’t just love and care for themselves, they cared for...
View ArticleWithout Blemish
Your offering shall be without blemish without blemish What can a man do? What can a man do that is with out blemish? What can a man give? What can I do? What can I give? The calves no longer bawl Nor...
View ArticleAbihu and Nadab
Aaron’s sons are dead. Filled with an excess of love and excitement, they approached. Burned. Burned and dead. Dragged away by their cousins. Placed outside of the camp. Separate? Holy? Dragged by...
View ArticleSustainability of the Heart – Abiding in the Vine
Editors Note: This is a sermon shared at the Transfiguration Retreat in Sewanee, TN on May 6, 2012. Abide and Bear Fruit This is perhaps a perfect text given to us by the lectionary. Just as the...
View ArticleOf “Lights” and Soul-Liberation (Confessions From a Real-Life Journey Moment)
“Honey, thou dost protest too much, methinks,” says my wife frequently. Oh, she’s not always so Shakespearean about it, but she does say essentially that. Denial is a funny thing. Refusing to accept...
View ArticleMary of Nazareth, Mother of Jesus, Theotokos
That pain was sickening. The anticipation of his reaction fanned the flames of panic within her as she prepared to tell her soon-to-be-husband something that he, surely, would not believe. Something he...
View ArticleClimate Change
Good morning, happy New Year. It’s such an honor be your rabbi. And it’s such pleasure to wish you all a joyful Jewish new year on this fine morning. But imagine my shock when I woke up to discover...
View ArticleThis is only a test
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View ArticleOf Janis Joplin and Christian Women (Owed to Being Unladylike)
I was three-years old the first time I heard Janis Joplin’s “Mercedes Benz” on the radio. In 1971, Dad (though not a fan of rock and roll) thought it quite funny, and we heard it several times during a...
View ArticleStanding Your Ground
I just read the most interesting article today and it really gave me pause. Apparently, in Florida, the handgun lobby has become so powerful that they were able to get a law passed that gives you the...
View ArticleThe Perfect Church
I once went to the perfect church. The people were warm and inviting.It was obvious that the people loved and cared for one another – but they didn’t just love and care for themselves, they cared for...
View ArticleWithout Blemish
Your offering shall be without blemish without blemish What can a man do? What can a man do that is with out blemish? What can a man give? What can I do? What can I give? The calves no longer bawl Nor...
View ArticleAbihu and Nadab
Aaron’s sons are dead. Filled with an excess of love and excitement, they approached. Burned. Burned and dead. Dragged away by their cousins. Placed outside of the camp. Separate? Holy? Dragged by...
View ArticleSustainability of the Heart – Abiding in the Vine
Editors Note: This is a sermon shared at the Transfiguration Retreat in Sewanee, TN on May 6, 2012. Abide and Bear Fruit This is perhaps a perfect text given to us by the lectionary. Just as the...
View ArticleOf “Lights” and Soul-Liberation (Confessions From a Real-Life Journey Moment)
“Honey, thou dost protest too much, methinks,” says my wife frequently. Oh, she’s not always so Shakespearean about it, but she does say essentially that. Denial is a funny thing. Refusing to accept...
View ArticleMary of Nazareth, Mother of Jesus, Theotokos
That pain was sickening. The anticipation of his reaction fanned the flames of panic within her as she prepared to tell her soon-to-be-husband something that he, surely, would not believe. Something he...
View ArticleClimate Change
Good morning, happy New Year. It’s such an honor be your rabbi. And it’s such pleasure to wish you all a joyful Jewish new year on this fine morning. But imagine my shock when I woke up to discover...
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