Dear Friends, Sunday was a sort of American holiday and a day of controversy. Millions larded kitchen and dining room and coffee tables with Super Bowl-themes cakes and elaborate layered dip concoctions designed to keep you coming back for more. Millions watched men in the prime of their life smash their bodies into the field … Continue reading February 5, 2020 Minister’s Message
Dear Friends, There is an oak just outside my living room window. A big one. And it’s covered with Virginia Creeper, all the way to the top. Judging by the size, the vine has been growing a long time. And given enough time, that thin and fragile vine, that vine which would only be able … Continue reading January 29, 2020 Minister’s Message
Minister’s Message Dear Friends, Last year around this time, I selected a simple word around which to organize a spiritual practice. In 2019, my word was “pause,” and I went to the word and the action whenever I felt overwhelmed or perplexed by events cultural and political as well as congregational and personal. I took … Continue reading January 15, 2020 Minister’s Message
January 8, 2020 Minister’s Message Dear Friends, It is good to be back at the Fellowship, returned to ordinary time after holidays and travel for family visits. It is good to be home. On Sunday, the prairie winds quite rattled the Fellowship. Rattled me anyway. There was a lot of creaking. But the Fellowship building … Continue reading January 8, 2020 Minister’s Message
Dear Friends, The daylight is once more returning. The waiting is almost over. The New Year is nearly upon us. Everything is happening again. Everything is new again. Our seasonal and holiday milestones enable us to pause and reflect on how life has changed, how the world has changed, how we have each in large … Continue reading December 24, 2019 Minister’s Message
Minister’s Message Dear Friends, In the midst of the business and the busy-ness of this holiday season, I invite you into rest, into quiet contemplation and reverie, if only for a few minutes. I invite you to purpose toward a time, even a very brief time, of repose. To purpose toward repose as if it … Continue reading December 18, 2019 Minister’s Message
Minister’s Message Dear Friends, Within the frame of our Soul Matters monthly theme of “Awe,” I invite you to consider this bit of poetic wisdom from G.K. Chesterton: “Here dies another day During which I have had eyes, ears, hands And the great world round me; And with tomorrow begins another. Why am I allowed … Continue reading December 11, 2019 Minister’s Message
Dec 4 Minister’s Message Dear Friends, This month’s Soul Matters theme is “Awe,” an invitation to realize the marvel and the amazingness of the vast web of which we are a part. Our expression “awe” is rooted in the Greek word áchos which also gives us the word “ache.” That vastness we experience in awe opens an ache … Continue reading December 4, 2019 Minister’s Message
Nov 27 Dear Friends, Let us begin in gratitude in this season of Thanksgiving: for places to live and food to eat; for opportunities to learn and grow; for our families—both blood and chosen—who nurtures us into being and belonging; for a faith tradition that invites us to seek the truth, no matter when the … Continue reading November 27, 2019 Minister’s Message
Dear Friends, I confess that I have spent more time than I ought to listening to the Congressional Hearings to Impeach the sitting President of the United States. It feels like the proverbial car wreck—it is hideous, and I can’t look away. I have an endless pit in my stomach, a constant set of refrains … Continue reading November 20, 2019 Minister’s Message
