My wife is the Children’s Librarian at our local library.Yesterday, being Leap Day, for one of her book groups she had the children respond to questions about what they like today and what they think they will be doing four years from now when … [Read more]
Several weeks ago I preached a sermon entitled “The Words of Our Mouths.” It was prompted by the tension created between events in the news and my understanding of who we are called to be and how we are to treat one another. Following … [Read more]
Two Houses and Four Latrines
Next week I will be with 21 other people - 18 high school students and 3 other adults - in El Portillo, Nicaragua where we will work with a team of masons, and alongside family and community members to build homes for two families and also to help … [Read more]
A Prayer for Today
Dare we risk praying to you, O God?Dare we risk linking our lives to You;Our hopes to Your hope;Our sorrow to Your care; Our dreams to Your dream:Our searching to Your promises?Do we dare do that, O God?Yet, here we are.How can we not. … [Read more]
Splitsville
I have been a part of the Presbyterian Church all my life and a Presbyterian pastor for almost 30 years. I share that only as backdrop for this. For more than 30 years the Presbyterian Church has been fighting over the issue of homosexuality. And, … [Read more]
Canyon of Heroes
Yesterday New York City hosted a parade for the New York Giants football team down the Canyon of Heroes in lower Manhattan. Thousands of people gathered to cheer the winners of the football’s Super Bowl. But, lingering in the background, is a … [Read more]
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