Abiding in Hope

John 13:1-17, 31b-35 A table. A robe. A towel. A basin. Water. A cup of wine. A loaf of bread. Blessing. Thanksgiving. Service. Love. These ...

  Philippians 2:5-11 Empty of all privilege and power,  empty of all vanity and puffed up pride  he arrives not as a great warrior  astride ...

When I was about twelve, we went to San Diego, and my Mom took me to a beach in La Jolla that was a perfect little crescent moon. I had br...

John 11:1-45 To the sound of distant weeping I exited: “Eleazar, Eleazar,” my sisters cried but the keen came as if from the bottom of a w...

John4: 5-42 Lenten violet and white papel picado flutter overhead, the bougainvillea blooms sprawl over the crisp white tablecloths, altars...

Abraham, back when  he was just two syllable Abram heard the voice of God from within his soul speak so convincingly that even as his molar...

The first thing I notice when I read these passages every three years on the first Sunday of Lent is a comforting reminder that seems especi...

Ashes to tie us to dust, the alleged poverty of too brief time on Earth, but instead proclaims our kinship with the flaring symphony of star...

When I was 17 years old, my mother and I went to Europe for two weeks after my high school graduation, spending our time mostly in the UK an...

Exodus 24:12-18 2 Peter 1:16-21 Matthew 17:1-9 Something called the sleeper to wakefulness to stand outside in the hour before dawn; larg...

Love divine, we praise You for the beauty of this new day: alleluias rise with the song of the morning birds. You have called us into coven...

Beloved Creator, Amazing Grace, who holds us tenderly like sparrows in Your hand: we turn into your embrace today, joining with creation sin...

Deuteronomy 30:15-20 For the first 14 years of my teaching career, I taught 7th graders in middle school. I honestly loved much of it—even t...

One of my all-time favorite movies is Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein, a spoof on the horror movie genre of the 30s and 40s, the era of Lon C...

“You are the salt of the earth… and the light of the world.” Matthew 5:13, 16 Reminder of the warm seas of our primordial wading ashore in ...