NOTE: Every week I write a "prayers and programs" note to my congregati on. Here is what I shared this week... Some of you know t...

I remember vividly listening to the second album by The Doors - Strange Days - when it first came out in 1967. One of the guitar players in...

Say ing good-bye to those I love is still hard for me - and now it is time to say good-bye to one of my mates in music making. Eva - of st...

As I noted in yesterday's posting - Dylan and the Beats: Part One - the exploration of the politics of ecstasy is a common denominato...

Sometime during the documentary, "The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg," writer Norman Mailer says: "Alle n was all ab out t...

In Garrison Keillor's anthology, Good Poems, he writes: "Anybody who would rather read T.S. Eliot's Ash Wednesday instead of t...

One of the genuinely exciting things about being in ministry with the folks in Pittsfield is thei r CREATIVITY! For example, a crew decided...

NOTE: Here are my weekly Sunday notes fo r worship on June 13, 2010. This week is a celebration of our Sunday School teachers and their uni...

NOTE: In part two of my reflection on why the Beats matter in the 21st century, it is necessary to offer a tip of the hat to Jack Kerouac. ...

During my recent sojourn to San Francisco, I had the chance to visit a variety of my favorit e places in all of creation. The first was Jac...

NOTE: I am working on an extended posting about the importance of the Beat poets - particularly Allen Ginsberg - as an inspiration for a n...