Whether your favorite image is the Circle of Creation or the Web of Life, or another similar image, the whole point is: we are all connected to each other – we are not alone – what I do affects you and vice versa. As the playwright and father of Chicano… Read More »Keep the Circle Whole for All
It looks like a disconnect here, when you look at the starting words and then sing them to the tune I have chosen. The tune is upbeat and lively, and the words lament the Web of Life that is slipping away. Huh? But let’s embody the hope and promise of… Read More »Hope and Promise
When we get serious about the healing of creation, we stop living smoothly in the world. We become rough edges: We snag on Conventional Wisdom and Business as Usual We do not just gently slip by. We become raggedy church. This is a liturgy exploring what it… Read More »Raggedy Church
With each species going extinct, a light is extinguished. With each glacier disappearing, a light is extinguished. With each child stunted by lead poisoning, a light is extinguished. With each transgender and Native American woman murdered and missing, a light is extinguished. With each river run dry, a light is… Read More »Tenebrae for Creation
As the overworked saying goes, “Denial is not a river in Egypt.” This reading speaks to our denial-laden attempts to make these Not Ordinary Times ordinary again, to capitulate to Business as Usual. But something tugs at us like a hungry toddler demanding our attention: something is not right. This… Read More »Not Ordinary Times
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