I just finished indexing the worship-related material on the blog. If you are looking for something related to a certain scripture, occasion, or topic, just look on the index page. At least I will be able to find my own stuff now, and maybe it will be helpful for you as well. Have a blessed…
Reading the Bible and writing poetry in a quiet house. Life is good today. Thank you for your words for my sestina. The poem I wrote is below. If you’ve written one, I’d love to see it! You can send it to me via the “Contact” page–and let me know if I am allowed to…
Between Facebook and the blog, we have our six end words for the post-Easter sestina! *flesh, stone, fear (or peace), fish, appearance, and leave* If you write one, I’d love to read it! I’ll post mine soon. (Again, guidelines for a sestina are here.)
I love to play with words–their sounds, their flexibility, their clarity and their ability to obscure. I suppose this playfulness can get irritating in a preacher. So I’m going to channel some of that energy into poetry. Yesterday I re-read and slightly revised a sestina that I wrote during our Lenten Creative Arts Retreat. Sestinas…
Today is my first official day of sabbatical! I have four months to read and pray and write, to rejuvenate and refresh, to deepen my pastoral identity and hone my pastoral skills. And it all starts today! According to “The Plan,” I was supposed to be on retreat today and tomorrow. Then I looked at…
Here is the prayer we will pray at the beginning of our Good Friday service: Holy One, we gather in your presence on this holy night. We look forward to the resurrection celebration. But we know that first, we must walk this path with you. Give us ears to hear. Give us eyes to see.…
Today is Wednesday. Holy Wednesday. The ultimate hump day of the ultimate hump week. Nothing much is happening today, but everything is about to happen. And the tension of doing nothing when so much needs done is almost too much to bear. We have a room to prepare and a meal. We have promises to…
God of the foolish cross, tottering down the streets of Jerusalem on a donkey, You are not the savior we expect. Your power doesn’t look like the power we want our God to demonstrate. Your wisdom makes no sense to us. We are happy to join the crowd, waving branches, But not so sure we…
I first heard about the group United in Purpose several weeks ago on NPR. This group’s stated goal is to get more Christians registered to vote. They use data mining to determine who is Christian and check those names against voter registration records. If you get labeled “Christian” and you’re not registered, you may get…
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