Coyote-song thrills back and forth across the road on cloudless summer dusk… River-song curves the bottom of the canyon… Drum-song in the adobe church Christmas Eve midnight… The song of Creation is diverse, and is teacher, lover, challenger, witness, life-giver. This poem recalls songs I have been able to witness… Read More »Oratorio
We don’t sightsee our way through the world. We make pilgrimage in the world, into its pain, out of our silence Pilgrimage is a remaking. This long reflection came from my experience of visiting the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. in July of 2017. It took me two years… Read More »Pilgrimage
What breaks your heart? What holds your heart? What heals your heart? This is a reflection on heart, and will, and holding, healing, and connectedness. The entire poem is in a PDF document.
This service is a journey – through praise and celebration, through confession and grief, and on to hope and hard work. Based on Pope Francis’ encyclical “On Care For Our Common Home” (2015), it looks at both the beauty of all Creation, and its devastation by human hands, our hands.… Read More »A Service Of and For Creation
There is so much sacred music out there – and most of it never mentions God, or would be what you’d think of to play in church (unless you’re in my home church, where on one Confirmation Sunday we played Weird Al Yankovic’s “Everything You Know Is Wrong”). There is… Read More »Etude
Hope is not knowing outcomes, but holding fast and keeping going What do you hope for? What do you hope in? What does it mean to live from a place of hope? And how can Church be an embodiment of hope? This reading is simply a response to a quote… Read More »Credo
Falling in love with Creation means falling in love with ourselves each other our neighbor And who is our neighbor? “Won’t you be my neighbor?” sings Mr. Rogers gently, looking straight into the camera, into the eyes of watching children, outsiders all (because they’re not on the set right there… Read More »Falling in Love with Creation
To say we are all connected is a real understatement. The “we” and “all” and “connected” are grander and more vast than we can begin to imagine! We – people, critters, rocks, air, earth, fire, water – are connected to each other on this precious planet. And we are connected… Read More »Call to Gathering
We are in this together. We are in this together. We are a community, a beloved community, earth community. The goodness of Creation is real, the holy is in our midst, we are in this together, and together we move through the seasons of our times – the upheaval, the… Read More »Affirmation of Faith During These Times
Oh God of time and space we confess we are running out of both. Church is good at lament, and knows that it needs to be voiced as a community, a nation. In fact, one of the tasks of the prophet, according to biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann, is to help… Read More »Prayer of Confession and Lament for Creation