A Minister's Musings

My friend and colleague the Rev. Stefan Jonnason recently posted a story to FaceBook about an exchange he overheard in one of the congregati...

Are you looking for a great holiday gift for that certain someone?  How about the book about which James R. Adams, President of the Center f...

I recently read a book about St. Francis of Assisi -- John Michael Talbot's The Lessons of St. Francis:  how to bring simplicity and spi...

This morning I heard it reported that six b illion dollars was spent on this election, making it the costliest election in U.S. history.  S...

One of my favorite prayers, one I find myself coming back to again and again, was written by the Trappist monk, Father Thomas Merton .  It g...

Today I had the great joy of facilitating the weekly chapel for my colleagues on the staff of the Unitarian Universalist Association.  I...

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...