Devotional

I often wonder why God puts up with us. We’re wasteful: with the planet, with one another, with life. We’re self-centered: in our pride, in our needs, even in our […]

Psalm 142 is a prayer of David offered from the time “when he was in the cave.” Are you in the cave, too? Is someone else who you know there, […]

I just finished mandatory racial justice training for my standing as a UCC minister. I’m glad this is required. Many of the (mostly white) clergy in the Zoom room were […]

In 793, Vikings raided the monastery at Lindisfarne in England. Also known as Holy Island, it was the most sacred site in the Kingdom of Northumbria. Desecrated. Its altars dug […]

Ugh. I feel this prayer so hard. Why can’t God just tell me what to do all the time? My understanding of Christianity, of what God wants of me and […]

As a sentimental packrat, my basement contains numerous boxes of “former things.” Photos, band flyers, cringy teen journals, letters, random ephemera—every item once holding enough meaning to justify keeping. With […]

After feeding the multitudes, Jesus instructs his friends to sail back across the lake. He’ll meet them later. They assume he’ll walk home or hitch a ride. So when a […]

In September of 1939, King George VI of Great Britain was obliged to give the first major radio address of his career. The existential future of Great Britain would be […]

Covid finally caught me for the first time, more than three years into the pandemic. I thought I was vaxxed and ready for whatever she’d dish out, but within hours […]

In an old Monty Python sketch, the Pope chastises a reckless Michelangelo for painting the last supper with twenty-eight disciples and three Christs. Amid offensive content and perfect comic timing, […]