A Minister's Musings

Every so often I come across something on the Internet that I experience as so moving that, for me, it's a religious experience, and act...

During the Battle of Pamplona in 1521 the Spanish nobleman and knight Ignatius of Loyola was seriously injured.  (A cannonball injured one ...

RevWik has been on hiatus for a while.  I've been on one of those metaphoric motorcycle trips into the back country, ridiing the blue hi...

When I was in college I took two semesters of Latin.  I knew that I was intending to be an ordained minister, and somehow I thought that it ...

In the Christian scripture The Gospel of John (chapter 15, verse 5), Jesus is remembered as saying, "I am the vine; you are the branch...

I've been on a roll lately with posts about the spiritual life and, in particular, the practice of prayer.  But today is "Flag Day,...

My last post got me thinking . . . not in a profound way . . . not in a spiritually deep way (whatever that is) . . . but in that way that m...

Today I'd like to pick up on a theme I began to explore in a post a few weeks ago -- the idea of prayer as a mutual relationship.  I...

I was flipping channels the other night and caught a bit of the movie Evan Almighty .  There was a scene in which God, played by Morgan Free...

Today I'm going to let someone else have their say in my blog -- two people, actually.  The words belong to Alan Watts , the Brittish ph...

And so we come back to the question:  Can I dare to live a life that exposes my beliefs, that tells the world what I believe, even at the ri...

"Even to speak of 'God' is to invite confusion," I wrote this past Wednesday.  "It is so easy to be misunderstood....

In Anthony deMello's book Contact With God he talks about reading an article written by two lay psychologists that looked at the priest...

I've been wrestling lately with "The Urge" -- the urge I get from time to time to pack it all in and go flip burgers or pack g...

Here's a good example of what I was talking about in the last post -- waiting until you really have something to say to be up and about ...

I felt the urge again.  Once again I felt the urge I've felt so often throughout my ministry -- the urge to pack it in, metaphorically...

In Anthony Bloom's book Beginning to Pray , he offers two exercises to help with what he considers the necessary task of learning how to...

I'd fully intended to get right back to this post, but I was writing from vacation last week and those last few days were rather full.  ...

I've recently returned to reading an old favorite of mine -- Beginning to Pray by Anthony Bloom .  He was the Russian Orthodox metropol...

On Saturday I was facilitating a conversation at the Spring Annual Meeting of the Ballou Channning District of the Unitarian Universalist As...