Suffering and the Love of God
The hardest thing we are asked to do in this world is to remain aware of suffering, suffering about which we can do nothing. – May...
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...
Finding Home
Our practice is to find our true home. When we breathe, we breathe in such a way that we can find our true home. When we make a step, we...
The Importance of Being a Fan
I was recently thanked by an opera singer via twitter for being so “enthusiastic”. My enthusiasm for opera is long and deep with roots...
Why church? It’s Blessing School!
During a fabulous retreat on March 8th, 2014 for the women of Montclair Presbyterian, the Rev. Lois Mueller invited us all to imagine...
Grace
When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may...
Mandela and the Power of Silence
In my sermon for the First Sunday of Advent at Montclair Presbyterian Church in Oakland, I “outed” myself as a mystic. Clearly not a...
The Art of Being Church
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,...
