A Minister's Musings

If the first question we have to answer is, "Who am I?" one that comes in pretty close afterward is " With whom am I?" ...

Since learning about the death of George Carlin I've been trying to figure out a way to pay my respects. I grew up on his comedy and thi...

Okay, so yesterday I implied that the only question we need to engage is, "is the universe friendly or not" or one of its variants...

Albert Einstein once said, "I think the most important question facing humanity is, 'Is the universe a friendly place?' This is...

This video recently came to my attention, and I absolutely must bring it to all of yours. I've written before about people who've i...

Things have been a little tumultous at First Parish in Brewster, since the announcement of my resignation to take a job at the Unitarian Uni...

I just can't resist posting this so that you, too, can finally learn the answer to the mystery that has plagued the ages . . . just what...

The following was written William A. Von Hoene Jr. and published in the Chicago Tribune on March 26, 2008. I think it needs a wider audienc...

A while ago I had the idea of preaching a sermon series called "The Wisdom of . . ." with each week focusing on the wisdom of ano...

Isn't this amazing? In actual, objective fact this is a static picture. Yet our minds create the sense of movement in it. (If you really...

There might be some who would say that Eastertide is the wrong time to be writing about ephiphany. But "epiphany" is not only the...

In this campaign season politicians and commentators on the Right are continuing to maintain that the United States was, is, and always shou...

I have told the story many times in sermons of a walk in the woods I took once during a silent retreat. I came across a piece of quartz sti...

J.K. Rowling, author of the wildly popular Harry Potter books, recently announced that she'd always thought that Albus Dumbledore, the ...

One of my favorite quotations comes from the poet Louise Bogan . She wrote, "I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on a...

I have written before about stories from the news that have given me hope--that someone somewhere is crazy enough to get into a lawn chair ...

I was recently reading a friend's blog and was reminded of the reason Henry David Thoreau gave for leaving his little house on Walden Po...

Okay, so we have Paul Woods , the guy who's riding across the country on his Torro mower. Now we have Kent Couch, a 47-year old gas sta...

In every broadcast of American Public Media's Marketplace a point comes when the host says, "Let's do the numbers." And ...

Okay, so let's assume that we agree that the fundamental Big Question is whether or not there is a Go(o)d. What if the answer is both ...