Otto and the Dock
When Rebecca and Ashley first asked me to preach today I was surprised, honored, humbled and all that. Then I realized this was the Sunday before THE election and I was terrified; what in the world could I possibly say that hadn't already been said better by others....
Be the Land
Jeremiah 32: 1-15 What in the world is going on in this scripture story? Did you tune out after the first of the hard to pronounce names? Or during the most detailed description of land transaction in the Hebrew Bible? This is one of those scriptures that I’m not...
Revolutionary Gratitude
Psalm 46 Listen here: Good morning lovely Lyndale. We’ve had some intense months since I last preached in May. It has been a time of births that make glad our hearts – babies, new incarnations of movements for justice and love, imagining ways to turn the reality of...
Do This in Remembrance of Me
On this Indigenous People’s Sunday, I want to start by saying the name of Byron Buffalo who has been with the ancestors for two years. And I want to say the name of Toni Buffalo and Marlene Whiterabbit Helgemo. All three and many others have been my teachers and elders on my ongoing journey toward reckoning with the legacy of being a white settler Christian in this land. I say their names because I want to begin with the sacredness of relationship. Healing and repair are rooted in the sacredness of relationship.