Advent is a movement, not an end.Advent is sitting with all the turmoil around us and within us.Advent is a reminder of who we are, and who we might yet become.Advent is both a call and a promise.Advent is that process that helps us remember who we are, even here,… Read More »Advent: A Call and a Promise
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
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
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