09/01/2016
Somewhere in Wendell Berry’s book “The Long Legged House” (I can’t seem to find where), he writes that he doesn’t know what the government is and he knows the state …
08/27/2016
Church! You may have noticed that I don’t give too many “applications” in my sermons. I don’t try and figure out the meaning of passage and then see how it …
08/25/2016
“Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing …
08/18/2016
Church of Saint Paul’s, Here is the motto of our current world: “What thou lovest well remains, The rest is dross. What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from …
08/11/2016
“He created man in his own image. Male and female he created them.” Pope John Paul II had this to say about what makes a human being: “Unity arises from …
08/03/2016
Paul Simon. A lesser light to Dylan? The Bob Seger to the more talented and famous Springsteen? Maybe. But, he’s an undeniably important American voice. And always it seemed that …
08/03/2016
Paul Simon. A lesser light to Dylan? The Bob Seger to the more talented and famous Springsteen? Maybe. But, he’s an undeniably important American voice. And always it seemed that …
07/27/2016
Church! You may have noticed that I don’t give too many “applications” in my sermons. I don’t try and figure out the meaning of passage and then see how it might …
07/20/2016
Early in his life Ralph Waldo Emerson was a Unitarian minister in Boston. He lived in arguably the most formative years of our country. Was born in 1803, lived through …
07/13/2016
Sometimes things start out great. Maybe a few bumps along the way, but mostly up and up. And then you take a bit-role in Blade. How did things go so …