A Minister's Musings

One of my absolutely favorite things in my house when I was growing up . . . was my family’s set of the Encyclopedia Britannica . We had the...

I know I said that I was writing a three-part series on the idea of "the member-less church."  That series, then, should have come...

It is my understanding that my Viking ancestors had a two-fold concept of time. That Which Has Been included everything from the beginning o...

So . . . I'm playing with this idea of "doing away with membership" in the church.  Let me be clear, though, before going on -...

I've found myself recently playing around and around in my head with an idea.  It's one that makes immense sense to me, yet I seem t...

The church is not something that we go to ; It is something that we are . As I wrote on Friday, most people would say that, on a conscious...

"Failure is always an option!" ~ The MythBusters  Motto I am, for fairly obvious reasons, thinking a lot these days about what c...

I recently watched the powerful and haunting PBS documentary, American Experience:  Freedom Riders .  I said to someone afterward that it sh...

I strongly encourage you to listen to this tune.  Then listen to it again.  (You might want to have a copy of the lyrics with you so that ...

I was recently reminded of the following story about t he philosopher George Santayana by a friend's FaceBook posting that he wanted to...

This was the second sermon of my candidating week with the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church in Charlottesville, Virginia.  (April 17, 2011)...

This morning I delivered what might well be the first sermon of my new ministry with the good folks of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church ...

As I've noted I've been reading Fr. Murray Bodo's meditative biography of St. Francis of Assisi, Francis:  the journey and the d...

I had to drive for a little over an hour to get to the airport for my last trip.  I took with me one of my favorite CDs -- Dane Zane's H...

Today is Speak Up For Universalism Day -- a day designed to coincide with the publication of Rob Bell's new book Love Wins:  A Book Abo...