The holidays of Passover and Easter, while different in practice and meaning for the traditions of Judaism and Christianity, do share in their respective stories the experience of institutions and ways of living being upended. Many of us presently are undergoing the upending of values and expectations in our culture as we watch chaos unfolding … Continue reading Freefall
Having just finished celebrating the birth stories of Christmas and entering a new year, with our church in a time of looking towards a kind of birth with contract ministry, this service reflects on the stories we tell of birth, what is truly new, what appears new but is simply reconfigured, and what has to … Continue reading Birth, Rebirth, and Born Again
The link to the full service is available upon request to [email protected]. Anything that happens in a church on Sunday morning is traditionally supposed to be reverent, and we tend to think of reverence as a kind of special quality or attitude usually characterized by silence or hushed voices, stillness, peacefulness, a state of awe. … Continue reading To Bow and to Bend – in person and on Zoom
