“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” Franklin Roosevelt announced in 1933, evoking a stiff-upper-lip kind of courage meant to assure a nation in the throes of […]
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Long Night Moon “the dark too blooms and sings” Wendell Berry Wisdom says Befriend the dark. Welcome its gifts and songs. But as the solstice sun stands still and far […]
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Incarnation names the mystery of spirit or soul residing in our embodied or material world. From the Latin incarnatio, meaning “in the flesh,” it refers to the conception and birth […]
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I’ll be honest. I’ve been worn down by the past two years of pandemic and a multitude of losses and stresses, personal and shared. I’ve lost hope and had to […]
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I have worn glasses almost as long as I can remember. Still, to my dismay, some days my perception grows dull, and no simple lens will correct it because it […]
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This month, my congregation’s worship theme is Sacrifice — a hard one to lean into even as the world seems to be asking all of us to wrestle with it. […]
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When I consider how best and briefly to describe our times, the word that keeps returning to my page is “heavy.” There’s the weighty matter of mortality in the pandemic […]
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