These can be used within a regular service of worship, or at other occasions such as a church retreat, a special prayer service, or even just in your newsletter or at a meeting.
I’m a retired pastor. I’ve spent many years preaching Easter sermons. I’m allowed to say this: I sometimes wonder if we try to be too profoundly theological at Easter, when Easter is really – and simply – a time of wonder and questions, laced with a goodly bit of celebration… Read More »Easter
One Christmas Eve a few years ago, as our congregation here in Denver stood together in a circle in the dark sanctuary, singing “Silent Night”, I was incredibly struck by the power of a community holding candlelight and singing in the night. “This is who we are,” I thought, “This… Read More »Holding Light
I’m fed up with “dark” being equated with bad, and “light” with good. It just isn’t so. So I wrote this poem. It’s not about times of struggle between the light and the dark, with one being good and the other evil, but rather the struggle between evil – despair… Read More »Dark-Light Times
There is something of life in beloved communities of hope and hard work. They help us recognize life still real beneath parched, empty grasses, even as we stand in the wind-kicked barren dust, the dirt blowing over bare hills. “Beloved Community” is a term that has become dangerously close… Read More »Beloved Community