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December 2025

December 23, 2025

Love Comes Down

Since Christmas falls on Thursday this year, I'm sending this week's middle-of-the-week post a couple...

December 07, 2025

Are You the One Who Is to Come?

Fifteen years ago, on the Second Sunday of Advent, I was asked to give the...

November 2025

November 30, 2025

Advent is Here–All Things are Become New

I have said many times that Advent is my favorite liturgical season--this year it promises...

December 2024

December 17, 2024

My Advent Wish for You

For many reasons, Advent is my favorite liturgical season. The "Postlude" of my forthcoming book...

December 15, 2024

Why Faith Can’t Avoid Being Political

I've been steering away from politics here ever since last month's election and intend to...

December 13, 2024

How to be Hopeful

Herodotus is considered to be the first true historian in the contemporary sense of the...

December 10, 2024

He Is Like a Refiner’s Fire

The reading from the Jewish scriptures for last Sunday's Second Sunday of Advent was from...

December 03, 2024

Beauty for Ashes

On a beautiful, crystal clear June afternoon in 2002 I sat in an alpine meadow...

December 01, 2024

A Brief Introduction to Advent

Today is both the first Sunday of Advent and the first Sunday of the new...

December 12, 2023

God Is On The Journey Too

Two of the contemporary authors whose insights on faith and spirituality challenge me the most...

December 03, 2023

An Advent Lesson: It’s Okay to be Human

In Philosophical Fragments, Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard tells a lovely story about a powerful king who...

November 2023

November 28, 2023

Making Christmas Wild Again

Just when you thought you had heard and read it all . . . "If...

December 2022

December 23, 2022

Have Yourself a Rashomon Christmas

A few years ago, I was asked to take on a temporary administrative position for...

December 22, 2022

Returning Straight to Jesus at Christmas

This has been an unusual Advent season. Advent is my favorite season in the liturgical...

December 13, 2022

The Incarnation or the Resurrection?

A few years ago, a Facebook friend posted a poll on her site. The question...

December 04, 2022

“Truthiness” and the Incarnation

In 2016, the Oxford Dictionary named “post-truth” as its word of the year, an adjective...

December 01, 2022

An Advent Wish: Peace Be to You

Advent began last Sunday. For many reasons, Advent is my favorite season of the liturgical...

November 2022

November 27, 2022

Happy Advent–Stay Awake!

Happy New Year! Today is the First Sunday of Advent, the first day of the...

December 2021

December 15, 2021

Advent for Dummies–How to do the season

We seek retreats for ourselves in country places, on beaches and mountains . . ....

December 09, 2021

A Cosmic Homecoming

Baptist preacher’s kids get to do some very odd things. I memorized large portions of...

December 05, 2021

Our Reason to Hope

Jeanne got on the Amtrak early one Sunday morning not that long ago, beginning two...

November 2021

November 30, 2021

Advent and the Gift of Being Human

In Philosophical Fragments, 19th-century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard tells a lovely story about a powerful king...

November 28, 2021

What Advent is Saying to Us: Stay Awake!

Today is the first day of the new Christian liturgical year--the First Sunday of Advent....

November 16, 2021

Facts and Faith–Do They Go Together?

I am always encouraged when I find that various topics and issues that I obsess...

November 02, 2021

The Tweet of God

As is the case with many of the things in my life, my knowledge of...

December 2020

December 19, 2020

We Are the Hands and Feet of God

I begin with a couple of stories. Story #1: There has been vigorous debate on...

December 12, 2020

Beauty for Ashes: Accepting the Call of Advent

Two weeks ago, I gave the First Sunday of Advent sermon at Trinity Episcopal Church...

December 10, 2020

Advent 101–Finding a Retreat Within Yourself

We seek retreats for ourselves in country places, on beaches and mountains . . ....

November 2020

November 28, 2020

The Message of Advent: Stay Awake!

I have the privilege of giving the sermon for the First Sunday of Advent, at...

November 14, 2020

Don’t Make Me Come Down There

As is the case with many of the things in my life, my knowledge of...

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