Sometimes when you're short of words, you need someone else's to bail you out. How cool to hear Cornel West riff on Jesus, Tennessee Williams, John Coltrane, and Anton Checkov - among others. What does [...]
This Sunday, I have five minutes. Five minutes of homiletical air-time, during a worship service that we are calling "Confir-baptismo-palooza". Six baptisms, representing a bell-curve of ages from adult to infant, and then we celebrate [...]
The text for this Sunday is the post-resurrection appearance of Jesus in John 21: Jesus' breakfast by the sea with his disciples. Perhaps many of you are familiar with this story. The Disciples are hard [...]
This week's posting is NOT about the sermon - either the one last week, or the one upcoming. This Sunday, I'm off pulpit duty - and hats off to Leigh Stuckey, who will be preaching [...]
I write this entry...guiltily, knowing that I skipped my blogging discipline last week. (Many do not realize that the week before Holy Week is really Hell week for preachers). So, I'm getting a jump this [...]
"Is this not the fast that I choose: To loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?" This Sunday, Isaiah [...]
I'm going to take up the advice of some of you and, invoking Janus (the Roman god of new beginnings, who was able both to look back and look forward), I'm taking a new approach [...]
This week, I am doing a rather hasty blog entry...mostly to put out some questions. For myself, mostly - and for anyone who might like to chime in. (By email, in person, or...here). About the [...]
I see I've broken my weekly discipline of getting a blog entry in by my usual deadline. A very bad discipline to begin the Lenten season. So...that's my very brief topic for a very brief [...]
Have you ever said, “I love you” to a friend? Someone not a spouse, girlfriend or boyfriend; not someone within Cupid’s target zone for you? I myself can’t recall doing that – perhaps partly because [...]
First, I want to say that I have not “moved on” from what is still preoccupying my mind – and I imagine the mental space of so many of us: Haiti. As I said on [...]
This week's blog entry - I'm double dipping. I offer here what I am writing in our church newsletter for next month. Been another kooky week, but for us, dust is settling, even as we [...]
I don't have time for a blog entry this week - but thought I'd use this space simply to share the letter I wrote to the congregation.Perhaps the best question to reflect upon this week: [...]
Very few words this week; I'm beginning a DMin program at Wesley Seminary in Washington, DC, and have once again entered this strange landscape of mental (and spiritual) exploration. A landscape that includes the trashy [...]
Happy New Year to all! How great to have some down time - and I hope you and yours are enjoying some as well - and that you have had a blessed Christmas. (Excuse me...are [...]
Bah, humbug. I'll be honest: I hate preaching on Christmas Eve.Why? 'Tis the most challenging day of the year. Folk want to get to their eggnog. Or have already had a healthy dose. Folk want [...]
Since I am not preaching this week - thanks to Jim Moyer, Martha Davidson and our music program doing the homiletical heavy lifting via our Lessons and Carols service - I thought I'd offer a [...]
Here’s the question for the week: do you take your faith to work? Do the values you profess on Sunday, have a bearing upon what you do on Monday – and the rest of the [...]
