We know that the book of Acts is, in some important ways, a critical foundation for Christian history. Eugene Peterson writes, “Because the ...

NOTE: A few weeks ago, one of my favorite professors in the doctoral program at San Francisco Theological Seminary, Gregory Love, asked me...

Two poems continue to tug at my heart this week: call it post Lenten blues but "Love Dogs" by Rumi and "Fire" by Judy So...

The older I get the more I try to laugh at myself: my gifts as well as my wounds, the blessings right alongside the anxieties and all the r...

I LOVE the fact that my United Church of Christ has been so much in the news with the Obama /Trinity UCC thing - and that my boys are risin...

Tonight our local PBS station showed a program honoring one of my heroes: Paul Simon. I wept and cheered,"went to church" and boo...

There is a great old country and western song by Montgomery Gentry that tells the story of a Vietnam Vet and a hot yuppie lawyer – two peopl...

The NY Times columnist, Nicholas Kristof, put it like this: The Iraq war is now going better than expected, for a change. Most critics of t...

Easter has come and gone - and blessings abound! On Thursday we gathered for a somber Tenebrae gathering of lights, readings and darkness. ...

After their Sabbath rest, as the first light of the new week dawned and Easter emerged out of the darkness, Mary Magdalene and the other Mar...