Pastoral Meanderings

Advent tells us Christ is near; Christmas tells us Christ is here! In Epiphany we trace all the glory of his grace. Those three Sundays...

The old adage is that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  I am not so sure.  True that we all have our own taste and we like what we like...

Somewhere I read something to the effect that God is not a mystery to be solved but a majesty to be worshiped.  Now I would suggest that thi...

Although you may not be thinking this way, most Pastors are approaching panic mode by now.  Palm/Passion Sunday is but a few days away and t...

Remember when Jesus came to Zacchaeus' house?  "Salvation has come to your house," said Jesus.   Salvation is where the flesh ...

I know I am dating myself when I admit to having heard, sung, and been a customer of Brylcreem -- the storied hair cream of the ancients.  T...

Love is not some fairy tale, happily ever after, thing.  Love is messy.  Love is costly.  Love hurts.  The very word "love" has co...

I was reading on another blog.  The author was describing an outdoor procession of Roman Catholics (a Corpus Christi procession with monstra...

From the Episcopal Church: “This year Earth Day falls within Holy Week, specifically on Good Friday, a profound coincidence,” said Mike S...

A friend gave me the heads up on a Baptist preacher's take on "why we don't observe Ash Wednesday and Lent."  It is a shor...

It is not uncommon for folks in the parish to complain that the Pastor was not "there for them" during this or that.  In fact, it ...

In doing some reading both in paper form and on the internet, I came across a wonderful phrase.  The idea is that for those whose relationsh...

I love history and mostly enjoyed the Tudors while it played on Showtime.  The next incarnation of a gripping story of power, sex, and decep...

Those who serve as church leaders are generally decent folk who genuinely seek what is good and right.  The problem is that we hold them acc...

Of all the things we do in worship, the hardest is that which is not printed out in a hymnal or a rubric directed by red print or a sermon p...

I have taken a couple of days off (mow, fertilize, mulch, etc.) and I picked up the Church's mail to see if there was anything urgent.  ...

It seems we have trouble with the two "Rs" together -- ritual and religion.  On the one hand we have some who want the ritual but ...

There is that great line in the Godfather movie (I cannot remember which one) in which Michael (Don) Corleone responds to Senator Pat Geary ...

Sermon for Lent 3A, preaching on Sunday, March 27, 2011.    I well recall when my parents gave me the gift of the record album called the...