The Journey

To have a passion is a one thing. It can be a source of soul-satisfying vision, or it can be a crazy-making force. Sometimes, both at the ...

During a worship service a man began to be moved by the Spirit. Out loud he said “Amen!”    He tweeted to his friends "This service is...

More memories. We just passed the 40th anniversary of when David Vetter was born. Known in the press as David the Bubble Boy. He and I l...

Andy asks, "Do you remember the day you were able to really comprehend what the death penalty meant ?" I don't remember tha...

I haven't been to my pond since May, partially because of CPE, but mainly because it's been so beastly hot. Hottest August on record...

First, I read the short version of Lillian Daniel's essay about "Spiritual But Not Religious? Please Stop Boring Me," that is...

"Take me to the water ... to be baptized." I could not go to the waters I normally travel to each summer. For one thing, I was w...

I'm tired. I'm tired the way you are at the end of your CPE summer. Ministers, can I get an 'amen'? But RevTony's post...

So, let me tell you my fantasy. My fantasy is that we come up with a sustainable model for minister-planted Unitarian Universali...

It’s a half hour past midnight here. I went to bed at 10 pm and enjoyed two blissful hours of sleep before being awakened by the phone. Th...

I've been praying a lot lately. Holding the hands of young and old, strong, weak, even paralyzed. "Know your audience, know your pu...

If I don't blog about something, does it really happen? I have been neck-deep in summer CPE, while writing a research paper for a May ...

I am starting CPE tomorrow, my peeps. Clinical Pastoral Education. For 400+ hours, I will learn about pastoral care, examine what and why I ...

I’m not sure we get it. How utterly the Internet has changed life. Maybe we can’t, because we’re right in the middle of it. It has been co...

It seems that the last 24 hours has been taken up with processing the death of Osama bin Laden. With that, has come critique on all sides ab...

For those who have been on the journey with us -- Little Wren had scans today.  I won't lie ... I was scared. This was the first time fo...

Once a month, I get in my car and drive to a religious retreat in another town that is exactly equidistant between my house and the Hysteric...

What do you get when you cross The Three Little Pigs with Forrest Church’s Cathedral of the World? Three very different theological houses...

Gathered and Sent A Sermon Given by Lizard Eater  at half a dozen churches in South Texas Okay, so there were three blind people and  … (Co...

The Rev. Naomi King organized today as "Speak Up for Universalism Day" and I have been tweeting a small portion of the Bible vers...