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...
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...
Commuting Fear
Anything scares me, anything scares anyone but really after all considering how dangerous everything is nothing is really very...
Jazz, Postmodernism, and BBQ
The future of the Church is jazz. I first wrote that sentence in 1996 as I was just starting out in ordained ministry in the United...
Imagine Another World is Possible
Imagination is more important than knowledge. – Albert Einstein I am fascinated by prophets – both ancient and contemporary. The ancient...
Jesus and Spiritual Practice
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching. – Mahatma Gandhi Concert pianist Arthur Rubenstein was walking down the...
Through the Eyes of a Poet
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off,...
Singing Freedom
This past Sunday was in the midst of Memorial Day weekend and in between all the grilling, drinking, graduations, and festivities, I...
From the Top
For the past few days, I have found myself increasingly depressed and angry over the general reaction to the strike by the musicians of...
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?...
