In this last week of the church year, we are challenged to consider what theologian Elizabeth Schussler-Fiorenza calls God’s intended rule, what many traditions call […]

I leave you with one of my favorite Psalms – it reminds me of many hymns and anthems – indeed, it’s the source for many […]

Say you were doing your weekly grocery shopping, and a reporter doing random interviews for a Christian radio show came up to you and said, […]

I love walking my dog first thing in the quiet darkness of the morning. I often think of psalms as I take in the morning […]

I’ve lived along the Gulf Coast and witnessed the destruction of hurricanes. I grew up in northeastern Ohio and experienced 22 years of lake effect […]

In times of war and natural disaster, children are among the most vulnerable victims. In my part of the world, the greater Atlanta, Georiga area, […]

It’s a brisk, quiet, mostly clear morning here in Stone Mountain, Georgia. With all the turmoil in the world, it’s fitting that we reflect another […]

I leave you something for the future. This week, the Reverend Dr. Mark Labberton was inaugurated as the President of Fuller Theological Seminary. At his […]

Today is Veteran’s Day in the US, and Remembrance Day in Canada and countries currently or formerly associated with the British Commonwealth. It originated as […]

Oh how quickly we forget. Barbara Brown Taylor taught me that preaching, really good preaching, is prayer and it is also art. Oh sure, it […]

One of my prayer partners has become my camera. I do not call myself a photographer (nor a poet, nor a writer, nor a musician, […]

I am sure that many of you have experienced Taize as a powerful form of musical meditation and prayer. If not, go to http://www.taize.fr/en to discover more. […]

One of the ways I walk through my life and my ministry is collaboratively and spontaneously. Rafael Vallejo asked me last evening to reflect further on how […]

One of the ways that I most closely see God, feel God and hear God is through the created, the creative and the creators in […]

Prayer can be many things: a journey, a conversation, a transformation , a revelation, a blessing, a gift. During worship, I sometimes speak of it […]

For most of us, there is only the unattended Moment, the moment in and out of time, The distraction fit, lost in a shaft of […]