About 10 years ago I started to reread and rethink the work of Dorothy Bass et al concerning "spiritual practices" that help us li...

Over the past few months I have quoted extensively from M. Craig Barnes in his book, The Pastor as Minor Poet , and today I will do so again...

After being forced to take a break from our journey home because of Jersey Shore traffic, we arrived back in the Berkshires safe and soun...

NOTE:  Here are my worship notes for Sunday, August 19, 2012.  They are shaped by the recent death of my sister, the Lectionary texts for th...

I never thought it would take my sister's dying to get me to Springsteen's hometown of Freehold, NJ but... stranger things have happ...

I am sitting by my sister's bedside tonight at 3:20 am: watching and waiting.  And praying and thinking, too but mostly watching and wai...

It would appear, dear friends, that my sister Beth is close to death.  We are making arrangements to leave this morning for Maryland.  Giv...

My country's culture is sick: it is wounded, sometimes toxic and often infected with fear.   Our preferred solution to almost any proble...