This Sunday we're going to open worship with Dave Brubeck's "Travellin' Blues" because... well, you know!  Carlton tur...

There are two sentences in James Carroll's searing book about the origins of Western civilization and antisemitism, Constantine's Sw...

This morning I was working on my last sermon for the next 4+ months - that's a very odd experience - a huge shift after 33+ years. ...

All of our major obligations on this side of the sabbatical are complete - and now it is 10 days.   In  worship yesterday, which marked the ...

WORSHIP NOTES:   Jazz for the Journey Sabbatical #2 - April 19, 2015 Introduction That song –   All Blues   – cuts to the heart of w...

Last night at dinner with friends it hit me when I said out loud, "Two weeks from... RIGHT NOW we will be sitting in some club in the...

In an anthology edited by Dorothy C. Bass,  Practicing Our Faith (1997), one of the "practices" (aka spiritual disciplines) inc...

This Sunday I will speak personally and passionately about my deepest hope for our up-coming sabbatical. It will be my musical, mystical ref...

One of the challenges of entering into our up-coming sabbatical is bumping up against a variety of anxieties: some are my own - my desire to...

note:  My recently posted pastoral letter to the congregation re: our sabbatical Pastoral Letter to First Church in Anticipation of Our...