My Facebook feed is filling up with photos of people receiving the vaccination. I have heard from folks in our congregation that they are...

The beginning of a New Year is an opportunity for us to reflect on our priorities and commit ourselves to new habits. Few things reflect...

For some 260 plus years, the people called Methodist have marked the beginning of a New Year as a time of renewal, a time to recommit...

Merry Christmas! This Sunday, we tackle the question 'Where Do We Go From Here'. This year has been one full of many strange twists and...

Each Sunday during Advent, we light candles on our wreath. First one, then two, and finally this week all four. Slowly the light grows...

One of my professors in graduate school, at an institution whose name does not begin with DUKE, grew up in Holland during World War II. ...

This Sunday, the last Sunday in our church calendar year, the first Sunday before Advent, is recognized as Christ the King Sunday. This...

There is a famous description of the task of faith as “comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.” This week, we turn to...

Isaac Newton once wrote to a friend, “if I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.” Every year on the first...

Angelus Silesius was a seventeenth century mystic and he once wrote, “Shout on, O Seraphim, that which of you one reads; I know that God,...

Most reading these words look forward to Sunday worship. Whether in person, online, on the radio…whatever format we are able to connect...

Dr. King spoke of humanity being “caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.” There is a...

An author with the wonderful sounding name of Skye Jenthani writes, “The future is an essential part of our faith and lives, because when...

On the bulletin board on the door to my office is a letter I received in late June of this year. It is there in part because of the...

This Sunday, we are focusing on forgiveness, and what the model of forgiveness looks like. Peter wonders if forgiving an offender 7 times...

Walter Brueggemann, the great theologian of the Psalms and scholar of the Jewish tradition, says, “[Lament] is an act of bold faith on...

For as long as many of us can remember, the first Sunday of the month has meant the celebration of Holy Communion. I (Pastor Tom) have...

Arthur Schopenhauer once remarked that “compassion is the basis of morality.” A worthy sentiment, so what do we do when compassion seems...