Use Your Inside Voice
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In a congregation I once served was a man who’d been there many years—not a noisy person, but one who was pretty loud in his dislike of silence in the Sunday service. Read more →
The Soul of the Whole
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It seems to me we speak all the time and all at once of two kinds of spiritual integrity, two ways of being deeply, liberally, religious—one looking inward, one looking outward. Read more →
Bound in Covenant (Excerpt)
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A covenant is not a contract. It is not made and signed and sealed once and for all, sent to the attorneys for safekeeping or guarded under glass in a museum. Read more →
Map of the Journey in Progress
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Here is where I found my voice and chose to be brave. Read more →
Standing Like a Tree
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Perhaps you remember the story about Antoinette Tuff. She’s the woman in Atlanta, Georgia, who was working in the main office of an elementary school when a man burst in with an automatic rifle and 500 rounds of ammunition. Everyone got out, thanks to her. Read more →
Wondering and Wandering
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In a meeting the other night we lit a small chalice and someone shared a blessing to center us down and gather us in for whatever work it was, and the blessing ended with the question, “What do you welcome in winter?” Read more →
If I Were Asked
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If I were asked to confess my faith or my beliefs out loud, and I were scrambling for some place to begin, I would start in the desert, in the lonesome valley, and say that first of all and ultimately we are alone. No god abides with us, caring, watching, mindful of our going out and coming in. The only certainty is chance connections, both chosen and involuntary, that matter most of all and ultimately help and heal and hold us.
Whose Are You?
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Whose are you?
Who carries you in their heart, thinks of you, whether you think of them or not? Read more →
How Does Our Faith Hold Brokenness?
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In Duluth, Minnesota, in the center of the city, there is a statue of three young men, college-aged, strong and hopeful, looking out of the stone toward the world. On a summer night in 1920, not so very long ago, these three—Isaac McGhie, Elias Clayton, and Elmer Jackson—were lynched there by a mob that may have numbered as many as ten thousand people. Read more →
