

Choosing peace
Maybe one of the great unknown – unrecognized – truths of life is that light always dawns, eventually; that there is no such thing as a...


Love made visible
Of God’s love we can say two things: it is poured out universally for everyone from the Pope to the loneliest wino on the planet; and...


Military mindfulness
December 7th, 2012, Pearl Harbor Day This morning while riding MUNI I met a WWII vet who joined two days after Pearl Harbor. He was a...


What gift shall we bring?
Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To...


Hear the songs the angels sing
I love to sing, but it also makes me bat crap crazy. In fact, every time I try to take my voice seriously, I usually wind-up flat on my...


From our fears and sins
Come o long expected Jesus. Born to set thy people free. From our fears and sins release us . . . This well-sung Advent hymn, text...


Practice, practice, practice
Today is the first Sunday of Advent. For those who aren’t Christian liturgy geeks, it means we’ve got four weeks until Christmas to sing...
What does your Jesus look like?
The small-town Presbyterian church I grew up in didn’t have any images of Jesus anywhere in the building and Jesus was rarely the subject...