Advent begins this Sunday.  It’s a season of watchfulness, becoming like Mary, making space for Christ not only around us, but within us.  As a congregation we hear familiar texts and sing songs of the season that invite us deeper into the story.  Here are three things to know…

The trees are mostly bare, but there is excess in these late-autumn days; of food, of memory, of longing. Time, in its fullness, spills backward and forward, and with it thoughts of all we have ever loved or hoped to love. Gathered into one, it is a feast of too…

To be able to enjoy girls and women without having to control or possess them. To have meaningful and vulnerable relationships with other males. To have a lively internal life of reflection, meditation, and imagination. To respect elders and to become an elder worthy of respect. To channel passion and…

  On Sunday, rather than lighting the peace candle, worship leader Becca Lachman invited us to place our hand over our heart and imagine the peace candle as a light within us.  It’s a prayerful gesture one can access any time.  Later in the service there were many candles burning…

I have been asked to be the featured speaker at the upcoming Jr. High Winter Retreat at Camp Friedenswald in January.  For my topic, I decided to go with: “What do we do with the Bible?” I chose this topic partially because the High School Sunday School class is already…