Picking the Proper Tour Guide for Good-Byes and Hellos

It is the last week of serving “my” little church. Of course, it has never....


Not Your Mothers' Mother’s Day (sermon)

Delivered at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Pittsfield on May 11,....


New Same Grief

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TeYHDrbu4E&feature=youtu.be Here is a poem I wrote several years ago that the good folks at the Church of the Larger Fellowship turned into a video, to be used as part of online worship as part of their 2014 Mama's....


Loving, Holding, Letting Go (sermon – audio)

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Loving, Holding, Letting Go (sermon)

Reading One     Saying Goodbye to Very Young Children by John Updike They....


interlude a la blog

My last post was the third of...not sure how many.  At the time, I thought four.  I thought I would write a final post about the Book of Revelation and evil.  But, life happened.  A trip home to Oregon to care for an ailing mother.  Not to mention....



The Limits of Our Senses: An Easter Sermon (sermon)

Reading One             Logos by Mary Oliver Why worry about the....


That Estranged Crazy Uncle: Did He Room with M. Night Shyamalan at Overnight Camp?

Part 2      (You can find Part 1 here.) There are a handful of liberal theologians who are applying an eco-theology lens to the Book of Revelation, stretching to find in the text inspiration for care of the earth, rather than its destruction. I was....


That Estranged Crazy Uncle: What to Do When He Comes to Dinner?

Part 1 The Book of Revelation is the estranged crazy uncle of the Christian....