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 gratitude, raising praise for life that sustains and renews, to grace that surrounds and surprises, for the abiding truth: there is no separation between us and the rest of the....


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.  Are you, dear reader, old enough to remember? I was in high school then and I took this very personally.  While others were out partying, or working, I was reading....


F*ck Bucket Lists

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


Tiny Resurrections: Easter Sunrise 2015 (sermon)

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Reflection on Holy Saturday

For Christians, this week ending with Easter on Sunday is called Holy Week (which I learned just a few short years ago, go figure).  Here is a reflection I wrote for the day after Jesus was hung on the cross and before anyone had any inkling of what was....


Falling in Love: My Encounter with a Homeless Man

I am not often on the subway but the other day I was on the Red Line from Park....