May 18, 2015 | church, Monday Muse, Pentecost, worship
First, a confession: I’m not a big fan of my birthday. Actually that’s not quite accurate. I like my birthday just fine, but as an inherently private person I’m not a big fan of others’ expectations of how I should spend my birthday,...
May 11, 2015 | books, justice, Monday Muse, review
“Cheap reconciliation generates further injustice. True reconciliation implies accountability. True reconciliation means recognition of genocides and reparations.” ~ His Holiness Aram I, speaking at the National Cathedral earlier this month 2015 marks the...
May 4, 2015 | books, Monday Muse, review
There are books about ministry that are theoretical. There are books about ministry that are practical. There are books about ministry that are methodological. This is a book about ministry that is personal. Deeply and beautifully personal. Personal as in: persons...
Apr 20, 2015 | books, Monday Muse, review
Listen. Sssssshhhh. Really, just listen. Listen to the Psalms. Listen to all one hundred fifty of these ancient prayers — one psalm after another, one voice after another, without music or interlude, without commentary or homily. Just ssssshhh, listen and let...
Apr 13, 2015 | books, Monday Muse, review
For the first time in long time, I read a YA novel this spring: Echo Still by my friend and colleague Tim Tibbitts. It’s also the first time in a long time that I’ve pulled my head out from mounds of church-related books & papers to simply read a story...
Apr 6, 2015 | Easter, liturgy, Monday Muse, news
The Sunday after Easter — officially the Second Sunday of the Easter season — is known as many things in different contexts: Holy Humor Sunday, Bright Sunday, guest-preacher-in-the-pulpit-while-pastor-is-on-vacation Sunday. In the Revised Common Lectionary...
