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July 2022

July 30, 2022
Sometimes I hear measures of a song so searingly truthful or heartrendingly beautiful they seem...
July 27, 2022
I didn’t intend to become a spokesperson for tradition. Of those who know me best,...
July 23, 2022
Along with two friends, I weekly visit Nora*, an elder experiencing the slow-motion slide into...
July 20, 2022
I have this notion I call “cosmic flow” that is a large part of my...
July 16, 2022
{See previous column “So What? (Part 1)” for this column’s set-up.} In my view, what...
July 13, 2022
In 2008 I published a piece in a contest called: “30 sermons you would never...
July 11, 2022
It seems I’m always on the schedule to preach on Trinity Sunday no matter what...
July 11, 2022
“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope...
July 11, 2022
Among his last words to his disciples in John, Jesus says, “Just as I have...
July 11, 2022
{Originally published before Supreme Court's 'Dobbs Decision'}. I’ve pondered hard what to write regarding the...
July 11, 2022
I recently heard a Vox podcast about regret. The interviewee, Daniel Pink, wrote a book...
July 11, 2022
{I wrote this essay about our common fragility during early days of the pandemic. The...
July 11, 2022
I am moved by the story in Luke 22:14-23:56 [lectionary during week this essay was originally...
July 11, 2022
"Being a Christian involves living within the tradition and letting it shape our lives. It...
July 11, 2022
I am irritated at all the weighing in on Smith’s slap, and here I am...
July 11, 2022
Talk about an obscure reading! [Luke 13:1-9; lectionary from week this essay was originally published.] On...
July 11, 2022
A few years ago, I created a practice that brought Lent to life for me—a...
July 11, 2022
A friend once told me, “I wish Christianity wasn’t such a wimpy religion! You know,...
July 11, 2022
You could say Christians have an incarnated worldview, an “en-fleshed” worldview. This isn’t just because...
July 11, 2022
We are in a time. Long before the pandemic, separation and polarization had come to...
July 11, 2022
In 2015, I experienced a tragic loss. Each morning for weeks, I’d wake at 4:00...
July 11, 2022
“Many things occur between God and [humans] which escape the attention even of those to...
July 11, 2022
Every year in Advent, John the Baptist makes a showing. He’s an interesting character to...
July 11, 2022
Roughly five years ago; late-summer day under a New Mexico sky, the blue of which...
July 11, 2022
“Advent,” meaning the arrival or the coming, is my favorite liturgical season. And yes, part...
July 11, 2022
When I read a passage in the gospels, I like to read backward and forward...
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