What does it mean to pray Mary's "magnificat" in all of its radical fullness? Yesterday, during our adult Sunday School class...

What an incredible and wonderful Sunday to bring Advent to a close:   the biblical scholar, Amy-Jill Levine was with us for our Sunday morni...

I grow weary - and bored - when old-line liberals blather on about how local congregations do not seem to be committed to justice.  To be su...

NOTE:  Every Thursday I send a note to my congregation via email.  Mostly it is an update about programming, but sometimes contains a theolo...

Some days... Some days I hear things that not only break my heart and make my head split, but that also terrify my soul:   human sin and c...

NOTE:   Here are my worship notes for the Fourth Sunday of Advent: December 18th. It builds on last week's conversation about why John t...

Today was full of surprises: amidst all the little details of getting things ready for Christmas Eve ... + a person from church stopped in...

NEW TESTAMENT SCHOLAR, AMY-JILL LEVINE, BRINGS JEWISH WISDOM TO THE NEW TESTAMENT:   Editor of the First Jewish Annotated New Testament Spea...

Sometimes I like what I write here and... sometimes I don't.   Sometimes I process things here in a way that helps me see what is going ...

In praying through the Psalms of the Advent season, I have discovered ~ again ~ the beauty and wisdom of God being revealed in liturgy.   Sa...