(as world leaders gather at the Glasgow Climate Summit) Nations are gathering again. And in so doing, rekindle the light of hope for our world. On my cynical days, I say, “Well, here we go again!” Another climate summit. This time it’s the UN Climate Summit – held in Glasgow… Read More »Ritual for Leadership and Action
We do yearn so fiercely for peace, for justice, for healing of creation, for healing of our lives. We do yearn so fiercely for restoration of all creation, for joy, for a new world to be born. Advent is a time of holding on, in the midst of yearning, in… Read More »Advent for a New Creation
Come, thou unexpected Jesus!Thought you’d be so meek and mild.Never causing any trouble.Nope! That’s not the Holy Child! Although a savior for Israel was expected and hoped for, Jesus was, in a very real sense, unexpected. He did what proper society did not expect him to do – he ate… Read More »Come, Thou Unexpected Jesus
A whole new world may yet be born… God, we need to hear those words! And believe them! We live in such dire times – and it’s been hard and excruciating for so many people for decades and centuries, too, not just in recent times. We have always lived in… Read More »We Will Not Keep From Singing
I can’t say this enough – we are connected to each other! Down to our very cells, to our very DNA – we are created for connection, for relationship. We often forget this. God calls us again and again to remember that we are one, that we are connected to… Read More »Creation Will Dance
In our congregation, the “Sacred Readings” section in the service makes use of readings not only from the Bible, but from other sources as well – poetry, song, essays, etc. This response is sung following the readings, and was co-authored by myself and our Music Director, Eric McEuen, a local… Read More »Living God, Touch Our Hearts
We had another mass shooting in Colorado just the other day. Ten people were murdered in a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, just north of my hometown of Denver. And we don’t even have the luxury of exclaiming “How can this be? This has never happened before!” It’s more… Read More »Here We Go Again
A reflective, somewhat confessional, rumination for these days of social division — the full piece is below, and it is posted as a PDF document. I had a lovely pair of socks that I refused to wear for two years. They were part of a collection of socks I once… Read More »Start with Your Socks