Memorial Day 2015: Peace Pagoda

More often than not, I end up spending some part of Memorial Day weekend at the....


On Not Waiting to be the Hummingbird (sermon)

On Not Waiting to be the Hummingbird: The Life and Death of Lee....


Mother's Day Proclamation in the Shadow of #BaltimoreUprising

Mother’s Day is upon us. In Unitarian Universalist congregations, Mother’s....


A Litany of Blessings (for Tori Jameson)

(At my current seminary, Andover Newton Theological School, it is tradition....


Prayer for This Day – May 3, 2015

For church this morning at First Parish Church of Groton, I wrote the pastoral....


Prayer of Gratitude & Despair: Earth Day

Hear these words of thanksgiving and of lament. Ours be a prayer of....


How of Now: Holding this Earth, Our Gratitude, Our Pain (sermon)

First Parish Church of Groton, April 26, 2015  Audio version here. Perhaps....


The Hope of Raspberry Brambles

It’s risky, writing about hope without being in touch with at least some....


Earth Day 2015

In the early 1980s, we all lived under the pale of mutual nuclear destruction.....


F*ck Bucket Lists

So there's this thing.  A term of art that apparently everyone (who's anyone)....