So our Good Friday gathering is ov er - about 80 people gathered on a rainy Berkshire night - to consider what a still speaking God might ...

I just returned from a community "Way of the Cross in the Streets." About 25 people walked to the courthouse, Public Square, the...

A s I move with my congregation through the extremely complicated work of renewal - trying to rebuild an old power church into a community o...

For the last week I have been LOVING this poem by Jack Gilbert. It feels honest, hopeful, tender and real to me - so I share it with you as...

Last week - call it a combination of shitty weather, a sick-wife, an accumulation of petty complaints and a periodic broken spirit - and I b...

I know that it sounds rude, but holy week has often been called "hell week" by those who work in the w orld of the church... And ...

Now we are into the Holy Week groove - or as Joni Mitchell sings - "enter the multitudes... in Exxon blue and radiation rose!" Po...

B ono once talked about the Psalms of lament as our traditions first connection with the blues - and I think he is right! As a musician and...

So today I find myself in a Northern Exposure kind of groove: reflective, ironic, a little melancholy but simultaneously hopeful about wha...

In what has become an important annual event - our Good Friday mix of prayer, contemporary secular music and th e various spiritual themes o...

NOTE: Here are my weekly worship notes for Sunday, April 5th - Palm Sunday - in which I l ook at the paradoxical wisdom of the Cross in lig...