a strange beauty… #reverb10
A few days ago, I happened to catch an interview with Simone Dinnerstein on NPR. She has come out with an album that is an…
music
Don’t Try… DO! #reverb10
For me, the word try has some negative connotations. As in – if you are trying to do something, you aren’t really, actually, doing it….
cut and paste liturgy of JOY!
I am definately a cut and paste liturgical writer. I don’t have the time and energy most days to do the good hard creative work…
Why we are singing Christmas carols this Advent…
There have been a number of interesting conversations going on around how we keep Advent and Christmas. Taylor Burton-Edwards has suggested that what we actually…
The Gift of Joy
How many of you are happy all the time? Every waking minute of your lives? C’mon now… raise your hands! No one? No one at…
it causes me to tremble…
Day two of our annual conference has completed. We have voted on exactly 7 items of legislation. And we have celebrated and praised and prayed and…
where two or more are gathered
Even though our congregation is small, I try to have two different services for Ash Wednesday. We have an older congregation and it is still…
calls for justice in the midst of advent joy
This coming Sunday we will light the third candle on the Advent wreath – the candle for JOY. We hear in the midst of this…