
Inevitable Surprises
On Easter Monday I caught the first 20 minutes of The Diane Rhem Show on NPR in which Diane was interviewing the Pulitizer Prize-winning novelist

On Easter Monday I caught the first 20 minutes of The Diane Rhem Show on NPR in which Diane was interviewing the Pulitizer Prize-winning novelist
Over a year ago my son bought about 300 old record albums for $50 on Craigslist. Being the parent in the equation, I asked the

Does the precise locus of this Saturday, at the interface between cross an resurrection, its very uniqueness as the one moment in history which is
Good Friday when I was young was a day for bargaining. Not just between the pulpit and my ear, as I tried to do the

When I served as a pastor, the Maundy Thursday worship service was my favorite of the year. It was wrapped in darkness, silence, and somber
I thought it would be fitting as we move deeper and deeper into this Holy Week to devote today’s blog to a beautiful poem by
Bad joke alert! Brace yourself.“So,” says the fitness buff to the pastor, “what kind of pilates was this ‘Pontius’ that Jesus suffered under?”Groan. Sorry. Perhaps

As we enter into Holy Week, I’d like to share a piece I wrote two years ago for the Faith and Leadership program at Duke Divinity:
Let’s admit it: Palm Sunday is a problem. I know I shouldn’t be questioning a moment in the church calendar that goes all the way