Do you have any idea how hard it is to find a Biblical image when you google ‘naked and afraid?’ And I know that some of you shook your heads if you say the sign before it was changed to highlight Marita’s funeral. But naked and afraid is Biblical! It’s not often that I…
The art of memoir writing, in particular spiritual memoir writing, has been gaining in popularity over the last number of years, at least in the circles that I move in. I suppose one way we could understand at least some of the Biblical writings is to think of them as spiritual memoirs. Listen to the…
You don’t hear much about me after I won the election to become one of the chosen 12! I was so proud… me, one of the apostles! Even though it was only by chance, by tossing dice that I won, that didn’t diminish my pride. I was one of hundreds of men and women who…
The possibility of peace between North and South Korea… the conviction of Bill Cosby… 10 people, mainly women, mowed down and killed by a driver… many more injured… a calm police officer… the death of a Edna DeMann’s brother… a fundraising dinner… a Conference Executive meeting… All of these played on my heart and mind…
What sounds in the natural world capture our attention? The peepers in spring? Waves, murmuring or roaring? Children let out of school? What music/news/podcasts do we listen to? Does the music of your teen years instantly bring you back to a dance in a gym? What makes us pay attention? What captures our interest? What…
FEAR
Forget Everything And Run.
Or Face Everything And Rise.
The choice is ours.
The time has come… for all the students who walked out of school to protest easy access to guns…The time has come that Stephen Hawking is once again stardust… The time has come…. winter is loosening its hold on the earth. Some very hardy gardeners are outside again, helping to prepare the way for the…
Sometimes I wonder how I ever wrote a sermon without Google. I have often wondered why people at football games held up signs that said John 3:16. Then I suddenly realized, “Google probably knows!” And sure enough, this is what I found out on Wikipedia: It started with a man by the name of Rollen Stewart,…
Were some of you confused by my reflection title? It’s a quote by Dr. Brené Brown. Dr. Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston; she has spent the past sixteen years studying courage, vulnerability, empathy, and shame. She is the author of four books: The Gifts of Imperfection, Daring Greatly, Rising Strong, and Braving the…
Many years ago, when I started wearing a cross, perhaps at my confirmation at the age of 35, one of my brothers-in-law asked me why I would wear a Roman instrument of torture and death around my neck. I have to say that I had never thought of a cross in quite that manner and…
Ecumenical Continuing Education for Clergy and Lay People
The greatest WordPress.com site in all the land!
Looking beneath the obvious!
Connect | Create | Capture
Processing with God: Narrative Lectionary, Liturgy, Prayers
Welcome to Larry Hodgson’s world
Your source of fresh ideas for youth ministry
Where the fire and the rose are one
RCL and Narrative Lectionary Based Children Sermons
A Blog for a Pentecost Year
Towards a Toronto Co-housing Community
Thinking Faith in Today's World
When Arguments Cease Making Sense
Revitalize soul. Build resiliency. Engage your Barefoot Soul.
The Unwritten Rules of History
Moving Forward in God's Story
My Window on God's World 