Twenty years ago, in a senior seminar undergrad course, I was assigned to read Frederick Buechner’s essay “Dwarves in the Stable.” One-third of the short
Numbers 21:4-9; Ephesians 2:1-10; John 3:14-21 This past week, Rev. Kendra Van Houten and I were trying to plan a combined Maundy Thursday service. She
Here’s a sure sign that one full year of a global pandemic has taken a toll on my spiritual life. My Lenten observance this year
There isn’t much we know about Aunt Gertie’s death. It happened on a foggy night in November, 1949, along a lakeshore cloaked in a mist
We Americans like to think we have no social classes. The founders of the new nation forbade all titles of nobility, and we have taken
Once upon a Lenten season, I was preparing a meditation on Jesus’ cry of dereliction in the Gospel of Mark, the enigmatic: My God, my
I remember the day I was formally introduced to my white Christian privilege. It was September 4, 2015. I was standing in the middle of
I’m much more of a Jeopardy fan (may we have a moment of silence on The Twelve for the late, great Alex Trebek, please?) than
John 2:13-22 When I was a child, with a beginner’s mind, I loved today’s gospel story. The Cleansing of the Temple we call it. What’s
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