Month: February 2013

  • Bullies Called Him Pork Chop

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltun92DfnPY&w=640&h=360]

  • When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement.

    When death comes by Mary Oliver When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me, and snaps his purse shut; when death comes like the measle-pox; when death comes like an iceberg between the shoulder blades, I want to step…

  • Signposts, Abraham and the Unknown (Genesis 15)

    In her book Journey Inward, Journey Outward, Elizabeth O’Connor says of the importance of self-reflection: “We must be engaged with ourselves, if we are going to find out where are, and where it is we want to go.” One of the ways that we know where we are, and where we are going is by…

  • The Bible is the People’s Book

    This is a message I gave a couple years ago and coming across it today I feel it’s worth sharing again. We in the church have a paradoxical relationship with the bible. Many inside and outside the church have misgivings about certain texts or whole swaths of texts, while other texts serve as basic idioms…

  • Cutting the Pentagon’s Budget @fcnl

    Friends Committee on National Legislation started a campaign to cut the pentagon’s budget – in 2011 it was a staggering $664.84 billion, which is 60% of the overall federal budget – so that we do not have to make drastic cuts on important services like education, healthcare, nutrition assistance and housing that keep our communities…