I was up before everyone else this morning, nudged out of bed, I suppose, by the momentum of late Advent.  I wasn’t aware until it was...

This is not a morning musing because we are the happy grandparents of a girl who is spending a few days with us while her parents prepare...

For those who mark time in this season, yesterday was the Second Sunday of Advent. Even as the darkness continues to arrive earlier and...

A dozen years ago the congregation where I was serving welcomed a new intern. Inge was the first of several interns I was lucky enough...

Last week I took three days off from my work and I mostly kept that time as what it was intended to be....rest and renwal. The timing...

In yesterday's first assigned Scripture Reading* the prophet Daniel describes wise people who lead others to righteousness as being like...

I hardly know, when each day begins, what I can do in the face of what we know is ahead. We have lived here before, though some argue...

It's Election Day Eve and we are arguably as anxious a people as we've been in a while. I've been pondering how it is that we are more...

Almost every conversation I've had of late, save the quotidian What do you feel like having for dinner? or Is it garbage or recycle pick...

Fifteen days from today we will determine as a nation who we are. Whether we are better than our ugliest impulses toward racism and...

I read on social media today, so it must be true, that it's World Mental Health Day. Even if it isn't, it's certainly the case that...

A few weeks ago I began to write about the places I'd lived as a rather surface level reflection - what it was like in Illinois or...

While filling out some intake paperwork for a new physician this week, I was asked to list all of the places I've lived, both as a child...

Earlier this week I learned of the death of the son of a dear friend. He was only in his mid thirties and, from all accounts, struggled...

Once upon a time, in southwest Ohio, just outside of Cincinnati, in the town of Monroe, there was a six story tall statue of Jesus,...

(Dear reader....this platform has been a bit glitchy and so this birthday post is sent your way a day late. Apologies!) Today is my...

Somewhere this week it occured to me that autumn is out there, waiting on the fringes of summer. August is giving up its last week. ...

While it's true that wise clergy know better than to let partisan politics find their way into the pulpit, Jesus was political. He just...

It's never too late for love, I thought on Sunday, when I presided at the wedding of two lovely people whose ages I'm not going to share....