The calendar is turning to September. This time of year brings many kinds of shifts in our lives and schedules, but this year it also brings for me a poignant reflection. Ten years ago I gathered with Bishop Kirby Unti and the people of Peace to be installed as your...

I recently read a Sojourners article by pastor/author Jose Humphreys III, as he reflected on his hopes for our country. His prayer was that we could continue to nurture the kind of belonging that springs not from a common ethnicity or common ancestry or even a common...

As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of US independence, we pause to give thanks for the freedoms we enjoy because of the civil rights guaranteed by our Constitution. One of the important freedoms is the freedom of religious expression. The first amendment to the...

When Walter Brueggemann passed away last year, the Church lost one of its wisest, most courageous and deeply faithful biblical scholars. A life-long student of the Hebrew Bible (our Old Testament), he spent decades teaching us the profound messages which the ancient...

The Three Essential Prayers Back in 2012, spirituality author Anne Lamott wrote about “the three simple prayers essential to coming through tough times, difficult days and the hardships of daily life.” She titled the book: Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers....

A Springtime Prayer Oh, feed me this day, Holy Spirit, with the fragrance of the fields and the freshness of the oceans which you have made, and help me to hear and to hold in all dearness, those exacting and wonderful words of our Lord Jesus Christ, saying: Follow...