Category Archives: other words

Crossing time

Posted on May 19, 2017 by

This time next week, I hope to have reached the mountaintop. Between here and there is a steep and rocky ridge. Last time I crossed Crib Goch, it was on my hands and knees. My ambition, some quarter of a … Continue reading →

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Good Friday: his own people

Posted on April 14, 2017 by

At the beginning of the Gospel according to John, we read that, He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him. He came to what was his own, and … Continue reading →

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Forty days of fear

Posted on February 27, 2017 by

The most ubiquitous instruction in the Bible, we are told, is this: Do not be afraid. And yet, its counterpart is not unfamiliar, either: Fear the Lord your God. Ash Wednesday marks the first of forty days of Lent. It … Continue reading →

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Healing Spiritual Wounds, by Carol Howard Merritt (Book Review)

Posted on February 13, 2017 by

I love a good story, and Carol Howard Merritt’s book, Healing Spiritual Wounds: Reconnecting with a Loving God after Experiencing a Hurtful Church, is full of them. But it is not just a memoir of leaving one theological tradition for … Continue reading →

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Advent joy

Posted on December 4, 2016 by

I was blessed to hear our deacon-in-training preach this morning, so instead of a sermon for Advent 2, I am sharing the reflection from the closing Eucharist of yesterday’s Advent Quiet Day at St Peter’s Episcopal Church, Lakewood, Ohio. The … Continue reading →

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Beating a retreat

Posted on November 19, 2016 by

Saturday, daybreak. It is a rare day on which I wake up alone, with no plan except to write, and read, and dream. I am still dreaming at daybreak (of cabinets in the church basement, and their mysterious removal) when … Continue reading →

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Remembering our baptism

Posted on October 15, 2016 by

we all embraced on the slippery steps, laughing with the sheer sacredness of it all Continue reading →

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