Here’s a little poem by Jim Lowry to get your Easter started. One thing’s sure. What happened on Easter was not your usual truth. It was not natural. It was not logical. It was not medical. What happened on Easter was real but it was not your usual reality. Friends, this is not our usual reality! Nothing is normal right now. We can … read
My dear colleague Debbie Glaze is so fond of saying to her college students and to the church staff, “Change is constant; growth is optional.” It feels as though we have been given a prime opportunity to live out those words, as we face a world of change in how we live and move and … read
The Peace of Christ be with you all. There are six of us here in the sanctuary at Westminster, bringing you the live-stream service, but we share peace through the gift of the Internet. On this somber day in Oregon, it may seem odd for me to begin the sermon with humor. But when I … read
This week I heard a great story from our Universalist Unitarian friends. It goes like this. Among the most accomplished and fabled tribes of Africa, no tribe was considered to have warriors more fearsome or more intelligent than the mighty Masai. It is perhaps surprising, then, to learn the traditional greeting that passed between Masai … read