Once a month I conduct what I call A Ritual of Gratitude and Letting Go. It....
Illuminating the Ministry of Joshua Young: His Ministry Still Speaks (sermon)
First Parish Church of Groton February 28, 2016 audio available here Imagine....
Black Lives Matter: When You Remove One Sign, Three Takes Its Place
[caption id="attachment_3982" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Photo by JERREY ROBERTS, from Gazettenet.com[/caption] This week, in the city where I live, the mayor endorsed the installation of a Black Lives Matters sign on the City Hall building. ....
Blessing for a Pastoral Care Program
The blessing for this work is inspired by the poem, Kindness, by Naomi Shihab....
The Longing of Homesickness
What have you longed for with the intensity of homesickness? Of heart-sickness? Of both? Like a child who yearns for home but is at sleep-away camp for the very first time. Like a fleeing refugee, surrounded by the unfamiliar, by chaos, by....
If We Don’t Believe in Hell, Does It Exist? (sermon)
First Parish Church of Groton (For audio version, click....
Interfaith Winter Blesssing
These are the gifts of this season, let us open our hearts to them: A....
Preparing for the Ministerial Fellowship Committee
Preparing for the Ministerial Fellowship Committee: not for the faint-hearted. Besides the whole get a degree thing, and take on additional educational debt, there was the four-page Required Reading List. At five months out, a member of my study....