Beth asked me if I would like to preach this Sunday, as 2023 marks my twentieth year at Westminster as your associate pastor. Since I have about ten minutes allotted to preach, and twenty years to cover, that gives me about 30 seconds per year. When I first came to Westminster, my sons were ages … read
There’s a term in cooking called mise en place, a French phrase that basically means “everything in its place.” When you’re cooking something, especially something like a complicated recipe that you’ve never made, before you turn on a burner or preheat the oven, you make sure all your ingredients are out and chopped or whatever, … read
On this weekend when we remember the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., I wonder how things would have been different had he not be killed. Would he have continued his insistence on nonviolent resistance? How would his opposition to the Vietnam War affect his work? Would he have added concerns about the climate … read
As I went down in the river to pray Studying about that good old way And who shall wear the robe and crown Good Lord, show me the way! O brothers let’s go down Let’s go down, come on down Come on brothers let’s go down Down in the river to pray Today we’re going … read
What keeps you going and having faith? That is the question I’ve always had about those Magi, astrologer/magician types from the East—probably East as in Persia and not “the Orient,” a somewhat problematic term for Asians, but I digress. No matter, the East was still VERY FAR from where they came from! It would have … read
Merry Christmas! Today, we celebrate Emmanuel: God with us. Medieval mystic Meister Eckhart wrote that “We are all meant to be mothers of God, for God is always needing to be born.” Maybe that is the best explanation of why we celebrate, every year, the birth of Jesus, God with us (again!). God is always … read