An Ash Wednesday Valentine
14 Wednesday Feb 2024
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inOn May 18, 2023, everything froze hard. Our outdoor thermometer, which runs 2 degrees high, recorded a low of 23 …
“If anyone says ‘I love God’ yet hates their sibling, that person is a liar.” It is hateful to pass …
Blessed are you when youlove the small things of this world,the mortal and small,the helpless,the soft. Blessed are your tears,blessed …
I am trying to think of a blessing for this time. A time when peace is far off, when justice …
One holiday season in the late 90’s I had the pleasure of working as a gift wrapper at Turtle Bread …
Christmas is a holy day with an unlikely theme: being human. It’s about our humanity, and even about God’s humanity. …
We have gathered this evening to praise you, O Creator, for all our life comes from you, as do all …
[Reading: Marge Piercy’s Kaddish. Preached during a power outage, in the dark and cold at East Barnard Church.] We are …
The truth is, as I read about our president wanting to warehouse people with mental illness (of which I am one), as I think of all the lives ruined by our immigration policies, as I hear of plans to make being anti-fascist a crime, I think we need the lament and cursing Psalms more than ever. So often grief and rage and horror take over—they overwhelm and paralyze us. Praying out these feelings allows God into them—not to magic them away, but to transform them into passion for shalom, for God’s wholeness and justice and peace.