The Journey

In preparation for meeting with the RSCC (no, I don't have a date ... the spring ones were filled by October, so I'm patiently waiti...

Patrick Murfin has a great post about the Tea Party participan t who mocked the man with Parkinson's. Meanwhile, I've been reading ...

Dontcha just love it when it seems like you and others you know are all thinking the same things at the same time? I've been ruminating...

It is after midnight. My papers due this week are done. Everyone is asleep. Except me. And now I can cry. Along with the other Wilms' m...

The BFF-DRE and I have a question. Do you know of any UU churches that were planted in the last 20 years that were not planted as a functio...

"It's such a good feeling ...." After a somewhat stressful morning -- they went back and redid scans, I swear the techs wouldn...

So ... life is good. Seminary is good. My parents come in town today. They haven't seen their grandkids since last July. Spoiling wi...

And what prompted the story of the Penguins and Purple Martins: Two seemingly related worlds sharply diverging from each other. Purple Marti...

I believe a church evolves, just like animals do, albeit a lot faster. A church that has evolved without a minister is a different animal th...

I purchased “The Gift, Poems by Hafiz” translations by Daniel Ladinsky recently. I had for years been a fan, picking up stray poems here an...

It's the details, good and bad, that bring our stories alive. Sam Sanders talks about this in his article, Taking Black History Out of ...

I have a dear friend who asked me to coach her in writing a sermon. It has wound up being a great gift to me, as it’s forced me to think th...

Many groups of people have ways of getting folks to find out what they most value. For chefs, as Anthony Bourdain has reported, they play ...

A conversation arose on Facebook recently about the use of “Rev” in front of a first name. Reverend John. Reverend Jane. The question was ...

Okay, okay, I’ll talk. Suicide has been swirling around me recently. Not, thank God, anyone I know. But the subject. Songs. A celebrity ...

We had our music communion a couple of weeks ago, where I was introduced to this song. We had two of our most talented women doing it -- one...

Congratulations, Tom!

The voting is about to close for the WeMedia Game Changer Award that I mentioned the other day. Tom is in the lead, but the gap is narrowi...

The first religious experience (by which I mean, an experience in church, which is not necessarily a religious experience and in my case, ce...

Okay, not everything, not by a long shot. But a lot. 1) Going every week matters. They can actually prove it with numbers -- those who att...