First, came this blog from Sojourners which included a video clip from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.https://blog.sojo.net/2011/09/15/33304/ And, then there was this headline on the front page of this morning’s New York … [Read more]
50 Years Later…
About 50 years ago my parents loaded my brothers and me into the family station wagon, along with suitcases, tent and sleeping bags, for a family vacation/road trip from Pittsburgh, PA, where we lived, to Sarasota, FL, where my grandparents lived. … [Read more]
10 Years Later
The day began as most early September days began. Bedside alarm waking me up. Doing my part to make sure kids were up, dressed, fed and off to school. Getting ready myself. Walking across the church driveway to go to work. Beautiful early fall … [Read more]
Sabbatical
"If you do what you do, you get what you got."After more than 30 years of working in a church and more than 22 years at the same church, I am taking a sabbatical. Time apart…and away. When I first began planning for my sabbatical I started … [Read more]
The Calm After the Storm I have spent the last three weeks at our home in southern Vermont. The area around our home is a combination of mountains and mountain streams. My favorite place to run is on a dirt road that follows one of those streams. … [Read more]
Arguing about the wrong thing…again!
Last week 1900 Presbyterians gathered in Minneapolis upset over the recent decision to change the wording in our Book of Order which makes it more permissible for gays and lesbians to be elected as leaders (Pastors, Elders and Deacons) for our … [Read more]