A Minister's Musings

Yesterday I was bathed in it as I preached my last sermon from the pulpit of the First Parish in Brewster's pulpit as their senior minis...

If you looked up the word " spartan " and checked out the antonyms, you'd find a picture of my office. Virtually every space ...

I've written before about the guy who attached helium balloons to his lawnchair and flew --three times, as of recently, and for several ...

This winter I "discovered" Queen. I'd heard Bohemian Rhapsody , of course, but they were all a little too glam for my taste an...

It has been said that there are three kinds of people in the world--those who are good with numbers and those who aren't. I've said ...

So here we are, the question at which so many religious traditions--or, at least, so many religious professionals--usually begin the convers...

The third question we all must answer--that is, if we want to live the "examined life"--is "Where Am I?" When I was in J...

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...