Understanding our place in the universe and the general order of things is in many ways the essence of worship. It is a moment to declare...

“People basically do what they want to do.” I can hear my mother’s voice even as I type those words. She’s right, you know. As a basic...

My mother frequently opines, “if I had known grandchildren were this much fun, I’d have had them first.” Now that we have a grandchild,...

On the shelves in my office there is book with the odd title of Does God Need the Church? An interesting question. Spoiler alert, the...

Competition comes early in our lives and fills a big part of our experience, and maybe it has always been so. Then suddenly we come upon...

Who are you? No, really – who are you? We can answer that question in all kinds of ways. Identity has always fascinated us. Who we think...

Watching the evening news can be exhausting these days. Quite a number of friends have decided to withdraw from news and social media,...

I’m not actually a fan of musical theater, though I have seen quite a bit of it. I remember well watching the movie “Fiddler on the Roof”...

The summer is winding down, the kids are preparing to return to school, the activity of the church is starting to ramp up, and our...

What time is it? From the small clocks on our cell phones to some of the biggest clocks in the world, humans are obsessed with time. But...

This week we welcome to the pulpit, Zeb Hough, director of Religious Community Services. Zeb is a man of deep faith and has a passion for...

I saw a post some time ago that said, “I am officially resigning from adulthood. I will no longer be making any important decisions. I am...

Some of you have heard me say that the most common definition of the Church is “the voluntary assembly of like-minded individuals,” the...

“For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between...

Saint is not a term we frequently think of in terms of the church community, and to be honest, not one that we frequently deserve. Yet,...

Thomas Wolfe famously observed “you can never go home, again.” There is something about the place of our childhood that makes it...

Touch can be a powerful force for good in our lives. Even more than that though are the spiritual ways that we touch and connect with...

I think I have always been something of a weather nerd. It seems to me that one of my first Father’s Day gifts was a thermometer to put...

In preparing for this week’s worship, I came across a Mexican proverb: “they tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.” The...

As a kid, follow the leader and Simon says were games that taught us to listen, look, and follow. As adults, we are not so good and...