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September 07, 2025

Moving Toward Freedom: Finding Liberation On Walden Pond

When I moved from Oregon’s Willamette Valley to the north Oregon coast in 2004, it...

August 2025

August 14, 2025

Beauty is in the Impermanence

Home for me is northwest Oregon—the kingdom of wild blackberries. Every summer, come August, briars...

August 05, 2025

What Does it Mean Today to Take Up Your Cross?

Even people who are not followers of Jesus often acknowledge that he was a spiritual...

July 2025

July 21, 2025

Our Value Comes From Our Being, Not From Our Doing

In last Sunday's lectionary reading (Luke 10:38-42) we get to glimpse a friendship—that of Jesus...

July 17, 2025

Stand Up! The Most Important Scripture We Get Wrong

A friend once told me, “I wish Christianity wasn’t such a wimpy religion! You know,...

July 07, 2025

Jesus as Parable: Restored Relationships vs Propaganda

“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope...

June 2025

June 21, 2025

What is the Scapegoat? Why are Immigrants Being Scapegoated?

Most Sundays I bend at the altar and hold the chalice of wine steady as...

June 09, 2025

Seeing the Beauty in Small Congregations

Serving threshold congregations is my subject today. By this, I mean small congregations on the...

May 2025

May 25, 2025

What if Everything is Moving Toward Wholeness?

In the milieu I grew up in, it seemed nothing was worse than being called...

May 19, 2025

Trusting God’s Presence During Uncertainty

In the long passage this Sunday's lectionary reading is from, often called the ‘Farewell Discourses,’...

May 05, 2025

Simple Pleasures: On Finding Happiness Where We Can

Today in my car, I played Kate Rusby’s ‘Hourglass,’ which I hadn’t heard in ages,...

April 2025

April 23, 2025

Trust Over Creed: Are ‘Correct Beliefs’ What We Really Need?

On the surface, this week’s lectionary reading at the end of John (John 20:19-31) is...

April 04, 2025

When Home is a Person and They’re No Longer Around

Recently, a friend offered me a book she'd found at Goodwill. It is my memoir,...

March 2025

March 24, 2025

We Are Now in Autocracy—What Will Bring The Turning?

Autocracy. noun. 1. Government by a single person having unlimited power; despotism. When I visit...

January 2024

January 09, 2024

Building Bridges to the Inner World

For a period eight years ago, my dreams grew loud. I would awaken to fragments...

December 2023

December 11, 2023

3 Ways Religion Helps Us Embrace Complexity

{If you'd like to listen to this piece rather than read, click below on the...

November 2023

November 07, 2023

Las Posadas: On Mary and Joseph and the Border

Celebrants press wall-to-wall into houses where we gather, forty to sixty people, night after night...

October 2023

October 24, 2023

Why Quiet Listening is Important Action

Do you too feel it—the disorienting internal pressure we experience in social-media-soaked times to say...

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