The Light that Shines is All Around Us
I was blessed over Thanksgiving weekend with a visit from my daughter who currently lives in Austin, Texas. While experiencing the colder weather in Washington, DC she commented that when her time in...
View ArticleJuggling your life
My friend Jeanne, who is also my stepmother, writes a blog for Forbes.com. Her most recent post, which you can find here (http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeannemeister/), includes this reflection on what...
View ArticleFaith and Dimension
In the reading from The Gospel According to Luke appointed for yesterday, the Third Sunday of Easter in our church (the services were glorious, by the way, you should come to ours, go to yours or look...
View ArticleThe Alban Prayer
(first published on June 24, 2010) Almighty God, We thank you for this place built to your glory and in memory of Alban, our first martyr: Following his example in the fellowship of the saints, may we...
View ArticleUnbelievable! (Three)
This series examines what we don’t believe — and why — in order to help us understand what we do believe, and why we believe it. The church does not believe that God is an angry bastard who tortured...
View ArticleCongratulations!
In a recent sermon (and Daily Cup) my colleague Matthew asked us, “What kind of Jesus are we waiting for this Advent?” Another colleague’s Daily Cup (Sonya, of course) was titled “Singing Songs of...
View ArticleFaith
“So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him.” Genesis 12:4 Just like that. Abram, the childless 75-year-old, gets up and he goes. Why? Because God told him to go. Simple as...
View ArticleLight Before Dawn
(revised from posting in January 2013) Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. – Rabindranath Tagore Days are lengthening, and even amid the cloudy days of winter we sense...
View ArticleBabe the Shepherd
first published September 22, 2011 I feel like a shepherd a lot of times. If I’m not shepherding singers than it’s a husband or parent or child. At least I think they need it…sometimes they disagree....
View ArticleKayla’s letter
This morning, I went to a Bible study in which the discussion kept turning, over and over, to a letter that was written by Kayla Mueller, the young American woman who died recently in the custody of...
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