Happy Trails or Safe Parking Lot 12/31/17 This sermon is the result of an email exchange I had with a church member who shall remain nameless about the possibility of…
Sturdy Indefensibles My old copy of Joy of Cooking has a rolled cookie recipe. It was my go-to recipe for years when we made and decorated Christmas cookies. They were…
Enough is as good as a feast December 10, 2017 We were buying food for the Thanksgiving feast at the regional market and wanted to get dinner rolls. But when…
Thanks to a book Chuck Lochner loaned me recently, I’ve been reading about gratitude. So it’s only fitting that I should begin with a word of thanks. This time of…
Sermon: Debts and Debtors October 15, 2017 The title of this sermon, Debts and Debtors, was determined more by practicality than by theology. I used the words ‘debts’ and…
“Hear this, O you who swallow up the needy, ravaging the poor of the land — Saying, We must swiftly reduce the wages that we pay and break the…
I won’t be here next week. We’re going to a friend’s daughter’s wedding in Connecticut. Last month it was a cousin’s wedding. And a few weeks before that I…
A Sense of All Our Places. The first event that inspired this sermon, happened as we were going home from church last Sunday. I watched two, not one but two,…
A Sense of Place Today is water communion. Mostly, if my informal survey is correct, we bring virtual water. We forget when we are at the ocean or a lake…
The Summer Day Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean- the one who has flung herself out…