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...
High Desert Art
Spending a week in Santa Fe for opera and chamber music feeds my soul. I have been doing this off and on for forty years. I took Colleen...
On Being Church
As the United Church of Christ governance boards begin to meet in Cleveland, I want to offer some reflections on the proposal to...
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...
Sham, Show or Seduction
What is truth? – Pontius Pilate You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. – John 8:32 In the Gospels, the anger of Jesus...