Living during pandemic as Lenten practice
Scripture: Psalm 23 Good morning beloveds. How are you doing this morning? Do you know? Have you landed a bit more in your body this morning since you joined us here? I’m not really going anywhere most days, but I feel like I’m mentally running around and around in...
Born from Above: Spiritual Adulting, Part II
John 3:1-17 Listen here: Will you join me in singing our prayer: God, listen to your children praying. God, send your spirit in this place. God, listen to your children praying. Send us love, send us power, send us grace. When I preach, I normally like to begin with a...
Spiritual Adulting
Matthew 4:1-11 Will you pray with me? Ubi caritas et amor, ubi caritas, Deus ibi est. When I was ordained and in my first call as pastor at Spirit of the Lakes, I had a mentor through a program of the national United Church of Christ. His name was Bill Webber and he...
Transfiguration and the wisdom of grief
Matthew 17:1-9 Listen here: It was on of my first nights on call at the hospital as a chaplain-in-residence in Brooklyn, NY. I got call to a department I’d never been to and had to look up on a map. It was a day surgery unit. Her husband had had what was supposed to...