20 Jan, 2025
In the beginning was the Word and the Word was With God and the Word was God. ~ John 1: 1 You may recall that the New Testament was written in Greek. Logos is the original Greek word used in this sentence where we now use Word . In every Bible...
13 Jan, 2025
Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood. How grass can be nourishing in the mouths of the lambs. How rivers and stones are forever in allegiance with gravity while we ourselves dream of rising. How two hands touch and the...
06 Jan, 2025
It’s Epiphany, the season in the church year that traditionally begins with the story of the astrologers or magi following a star to find the newborn King of the Jews. Our neighbors down the street have a full life-sized picture of that...
23 Dec, 2024
Our scripture has taken us to many places during these last three weeks of Advent, and today we find ourselves about 100 miles south of Nazareth in Bethlehem, the ancestral home of King David (most beloved of all Jewish kings) and also, so the...
16 Dec, 2024
The scripture reading for the third Sunday in Advent finds us with Mary in the tiny agricultural village of Nazareth where an angel comes to her to announce her pregnancy by the Holy Spirit. Archeologists suggest that Nazareth was an out-of-the...
09 Dec, 2024
This Second Sunday in Advent we find ourselves at the temple in Jerusalem with Zechariah and Elizabeth who remind us quite a bit of Abraham and Sarah, the founding family of Judaism who also had a miraculous pregnancy (long past childbearing...
02 Dec, 2024
Let me begin our Advent journey with a question: What do you long for? I am not asking what you want for Christmas. I’m asking what you long for in the depths of your heart and soul? What is missing from your life? If you’re like the folks at...
25 Nov, 2024
Friends recently sent me a spiritual reflection that began with this story: A man was caught in an earthquake. Terrified, he tried to pray but couldn’t find any words. He’d heard and spoken countless prayers in his lifetime, but in his panic,...
11 Nov, 2024
American novelist Toni Morrison writes this: Christmas, the day after, in 2004, following the presidential re-election of George W. Bush. I am staring out of the window in an extremely dark mood, feeling helpless. Then a friend, a fellow artist...
04 Nov, 2024
We’ve jumped around a little this fall, but we’re back to our series on Becoming an Island of Sanity . I’ve never before felt like this was as important. With the election two days away, it feels like anxiety lives in the very air we breathe...