I LOVE Stewardship Month. I know, I know, you may think that is weird, but t I love it for two different reasons: I am charged each year to come up with a “rousing” sermon for the beginning of Pledge Season each year. I’ve been excited about this one since….probably November 6th, the day after

This week has been a disaster. If you are anything like me, it has been a horrifying week in the news as what is coming out of Washington is as terrible as we thought and maybe worse. I am full of fear, disgust, dismay and absolute disbelief that some people have values that are this

My beloveds, I’m writing this on Tuesday morning, the day after Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. I think there was another thing that happened on Monday–an inauguration, maybe? I didn’t watch it.   I know so many of us are feeling all the feelings–grief, fear, foreboding, despair, and more. The last 24 hours have shown us

You all are so good at giving me additional resources and ideas after sermons you enjoy. In particular, I love when you give me poems (some of you can recite them by heart) that tie to the subject.   Last week’s sermon was about drawing our circle ever wider, but keeping it imperfect and always open

I got a lot of reaction from last Sunday’s service on the “Holy And.” It seems that many of you could relate to your own Holy Ands and I feel honored that so many of you shared them with me. Some were very straightforward and some were very deep, while some were about your family

Happy New Year! I have a confession: I’m not a fan of new year’s resolutions. As I’ve aged, I’ve realized that most of the resolutions that are typical and that I had made were shame-based and “should”-based. Resolutions like losing weight, meditating more, exercising more and the like were always things that I felt like