I like a faith that dwells in vaulted space, not low-ceilinged spirituality. Sometimes for a break, I rise from my desk and walk around the Meetinghouse for its lofty, vertical feeling. I take in the light from the windows,
EASTER COMES EARLY, JUST IN TIME
Easter comes early this year. It used to bother me when that happened, not just because I’d freeze at the sunrise service. But somehow because Easter felt less complete with anything less than nature in teeming, colorful, aromatic array
WAY DOWN DEEP FORGIVENESS
How deep is the forgiveness we seek? How deep is the forgiveness we offer? So often as public figures own up to wrongdoing, their carefully crafted speeches are designed to deflect criticism. Do you recall golfer Fuzzy Zoeller’s racially zinging
LIGHT ONLY BECOMES LIGHT AGAINST DARKNESS
This Sunday’s gospel story points ahead to the shadows of the Passion and Good Friday. Lent is when we notice the shadows without recoiling. That tests us, but if we don’t, we can’t aspire to our favorite self-image as
EARTHLY EMPIRES AND HEAVENLY KINGDOMS
David Brooks wrote something in the Times last week that has stuck with me and I can’t forget. Abstractly, we know that empires, even the American empire, only last so long. Everything we learned about history reminds us that, despite
THE TRUTH, AND THE WHOLE TRUTH, SO HELP ME GOD
Throughout these Sundays of Lent, we have experimented with a unison prayer of confession early in our order of worship. This is new to most of us here but common for many Protestant churches like us. In my message,