A Minister's Musings

I preached for the second time in my new church home yesterday.  This is what I said: A story (adapted from a story by Eli Wiesel) :   ...

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 ...