Why church? Love Will Not Stand for the Status-Quo
God turns a desert into pools of water, a parched land into springs of water. The upright see it and are glad; and all wickedness stops...
Dreaming our Future
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt “Futuring” is a special discipline within the...
The Power of Patterns
I often tell folks that the most important and useful training I received for ministry came from my days as an opera stage manager and...
Wrapped in Light
Psalm 104 : 1-4 (NRSV) Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honor and majesty, 2 ...
All You (we) Need is Love
What a crazy political time it is, this summer of 2013! The Supreme Court of the United States has just gutted the voting rights act...
Art and Blasphemy
“You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” – Anne Lamott I...
Some Thoughts on Flesh
Hands knead the sprained flesh where rib number five has worked itself out of line and out of order. Ugh. Getting a massage used to be...
The Hidden Cost of the SF Symphony Strike
On a personal note: I never intended to become an actual blogger who got comments from folks beyond my normal sphere of activity. I...
Happiness
Happiness depends, as Nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. – William Cowper (1731-1800) English poet and hymnodist I...
Practice changes everything
The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. – John Milton (1608-1674) Want to change your life?...
