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 ahead of time. However, when the time came, I was moved to dump most of it and to give voice to the joys and sorrows voiced by the congregation. Here is the....
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 semblance of it, particularly when one aspires to be a minister. My post yesterday for today’s Earth Day was not hope-giving. It was well-crafted. It was articulate. Someone....
Tiny Resurrections: Easter Sunrise 2015 (sermon)
[caption id="attachment_3517" align="alignleft" width="355"] photo by Susan Fry[/caption] The loss has been real. The darkness. Its apparent permanence. Hope cruelly stolen. Two millennia ago, we could not speak in the past tense, as we do now. We....
Reflection on Holy Saturday
For Christians, this week ending with Easter on Sunday is called Holy Week....