This was written for Thanksgiving 2020, during a spike in the pandemic. That day had become, perhaps, a focal point for the change and losses of that year so far, and this piece is meant to reflect that reality, and to point beyond as well. It’s more of a personal… Read More »Kaleidoscope
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
Friends of mine once sent me a video of their new Golden puppy (OMG, what is more adorable than a Golden puppy!!) discovering snow for the first time. This poem just flowed out from that, pretty much nonstop. Then I thought of my newborn son (from many years ago, and… Read More »Wholly Wonder