One of the daily disappointments I experience on FB is how some of my friends, colleagues, and professional contacts regularly belittle, def...

I did not grow up observing Ash Wednesday. As a middle-class, white Protestant child of New England in the 50s and 60s, it was just my Roma...

"There are times when I hate having to practice what I preach!" That's what I said to my loved one over breakfast as I shared...

No worship or fellowship today - or tomorrow - as a real snowmageddon  delivers 1-2 inches an hour in these rolling Berkshire hills. All the...

Somewhere along the line, I came across this quote from Meryl Streep: Aging means letting go, it means accepting, it means discovering tha...

We are quickly approaching the Fourth Sunday of Advent. My spiritual tradition asks us to embrace a threefold discipline during the four wee...

Advent One 2025 : I HATE clutter. Always have and always will. So, on what became a delightful snow day, I gave my attention to dusting, va...

I love Advent almost as much as All Saints/All Souls Days: these semi-barren early winter holy days speak to my soul like this blessing from...

For 30 years, in the spirit of Pete and Arlo, my various churches celebrated Thanksgiving Eve as a Night of American Music. In one incarnati...

Sometimes we just don't know until it happens: a blessing, a sorrow, a joy, a grief, or a word. Over the past three decades, I've b...

Today is Christ the King Sunday within the Western Body of Christ. It is a relatively new feast day crafted and advanced by Pope Pius XI in ...