Fresh Eyes or Fish Eyes?

Each week, or almost each week, I stand up in front of many of you and tell you where pondering and reflecting on the readings has led me over the last week… and so a sermon is born… But…I want to remind you that just because the readings touched me in a particular way this time,…

No, It Is NOT Finished!

John 18: 1-19:42 April 3, 2015 Ecumenical Good Friday Service This was a bit of an interactive dialogue. When I said the words, “It can’t be finished, oh my God, how can it be finished?” The congregation responded with “No, it is NOT finished!” Those words were what went through my head as I remember that day……

Circling Lent: Worship

Most people know that I have a pretty low Christology… and while I believe that Jesus was both human and divine, I believe that we are all human and divine. Jesus tapped into that capacity to be intimate with God in a way that no other human has been able to. And so, I worship…

Circling Lent: Dismal

It’s a dull, dreary, drizzly, DISMAL day. It’s Ash Wednesday and I pulled into the parking lot of the church where the service is taking place in order to get set up so that I wasn’t rushed this evening, only to discover that I left the key to that church at home! I am usually…

Friday Five: The Musical!

Musical Friday Five! What is your favorite pre-1950 hymn? Jesus Love Me. While I remember it from my childhood, it is a memory from my internship in 2002 that makes it stand out for me. I was visiting the nursing home and one of the men, who had severe dementia, that the only thing he…