Nobody knows what time of year Jesus was actually born. But we in our climate zone enter the season of wakefulness and watchfulness – Advent –the time of year when the energy of trees has been drawn down into the roots.  After catching photons from the sun all summer,…

Being ‘blessed’ is theologically complicated.  That’s what we more or less decided during our recent Sunday school discussion of Drew Hart’s book Trouble I’ve Seen: changing the way the church views racism.  How many of our ‘blessings’ are simply consequences of injustice?  We are indeed blessed, although it’s up to…

I wrote this poem yesterday as another step in processing the moral climate of our country.    “Stealing leaves.  November, 2016.” “This is the first time I’ve seen anyone stealing leaves.” My neighbor had caught me in the act, wheelbarrow loaded full with bags full of leaves he had bagged,…

  I wrote this poem yesterday as another step in processing the moral climate of our country.   “Stealing leaves.  November, 2016.” “This is the first time I’ve seen anyone stealing leaves.” My neighbor had caught me in the act, wheelbarrow loaded full with bags full of leaves he had…

  I subscribe to a daily meditation through a project called Inward/Outward.  It’s nothing more than a short quote each day.  This morning’s quote was from Anne LeClaire from her writing Listening Below the Noise.  It said, “The trouble is, not knowing what to say, too often we say something…