The darkness of winter feels especially profound to me tonight: we were able to extend the joy of Epiphany for two full days in our home ...

I love me some Nina Simone - and this is one of my favorites. Tomorrow, for those in the Ecumenical Christian tradition , is the Feast of...

Here is a note I shared with my congregation yesterday... Blessings and Happy New Year First Church! After a full and satisfying Advent...

Last Christmas, I preached - and then was published in our local paper - a message deploring the rising acceptance of hatred, fear, bigotry ...

Ever since I fell in love with Montreal I have wanted to see the city in winter.  Everyone told me it was rigid and oppressive - and I suspe...

NOTE: We head out to Montreal in the morning come blizzard or not. That means I will  not be posting again here until the New Year. Fo...

NOTE:  Here are my worship notes from Christmas Eve that have some bearing on my current study of Bonhoeffer for the 21st century. I am, ...

Today was a regrouping day: regrouping from being public, regrouping from being active and in worship, regrouping from working much of A...

Here are a few of my favorite Advent/Christmas images for this year:  Merry Christmas to all - Happy Hanukkah and Kwanzaa, too.  We had abou...

Here is our shared Christmas/New Year's letter. We're wrapping gifts today and listening to quiet Christmas CDs before heading over...

Today has been one of those days I anticipate after all these years of being in ministry: an unplanned encounter with people's unex...