Suffering and the Love of God
The hardest thing we are asked to do in this world is to remain aware of suffering, suffering about which we can do nothing. – May...
Why church? Love Will Not Stand for the Status-Quo
God turns a desert into pools of water, a parched land into springs of water. The upright see it and are glad; and all wickedness stops...
Why church? It’s Blessing School!
During a fabulous retreat on March 8th, 2014 for the women of Montclair Presbyterian, the Rev. Lois Mueller invited us all to imagine...
Grace
When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may...
Mandela and the Power of Silence
In my sermon for the First Sunday of Advent at Montclair Presbyterian Church in Oakland, I “outed” myself as a mystic. Clearly not a...
The Art of Being Church
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off,...
Imagine Another World is Possible
Imagination is more important than knowledge. – Albert Einstein I am fascinated by prophets – both ancient and contemporary. The ancient...
All You (we) Need is Love
What a crazy political time it is, this summer of 2013! The Supreme Court of the United States has just gutted the voting rights act...
Art and Blasphemy
“You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” – Anne Lamott I...
For the love of God
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. – Jimi Hendrix, rock guitarist Throughout scripture, we...
