T. S. Eliot once wrote:  " Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowl...

This article, by LaVonne Neff, is worth pondering in depth as she makes two clear observations:   First, we are in a season of grief - not...

I was at a meeting late yesterday afternoon - the founding of a new regional congregation-based social justice organization in the Berkshi...

I am so grateful that I learned how to cry - not in that John Boehner-crocodile tears way - but from deep in my soul.  Over the past 5 ...

NOTE:   Here are my worship notes for Sunday, December 23, 2012.  They have been shaped by both the Common Lectionary texts for Advent IV ...

The arc of this Advent - like most of this past year - has been totally unexpected.  I had hoped for a time of quiet introspection bathed in...

Earlier this week, my daughters posted this picture of themselves on Facebook from back in our Seminary days.  They were young and tender,...

I had hoped that my words this morning might be helpful...  and maybe they were but mostly they seemed all over the map to me as I owned g...

Dianne and I were on a short respite in Boston when the horrible news from Newtown, CT assaulted us all:  20 children and 6 adults slaughter...