Some days we burst with life like buds swelling to meet the sun. Other days we feel cracked, empty, and brittle as old skeleton leaves blown along the ground. We gather in religious community: new and old, empty and full, to create in our togetherness a richness, a subtlety, a completeness that we do not […]
Learning Resilience (and Resistance) from a Song
As I suspect a lot of songwriters can tell you, one’s best songwriting springs from the subconscious. This does happen to me every once in awhile. (Years ago I wrote a funny song titled “Body Parts,” about an auto junkyard worker’s love for his girlfriend. Only later, when pointed out by others, did I realize […]
Little Celebrations #23: Liturgical Quotables
May we bask in the goodness of life and the worthiness of our fellow human beings. May we rejoice in labors of love which bring forth the fruits of useful living. May we seek and create an ordered and righteous church and society, furthering the desserts of all: seeding and harvesting the best hope of […]
On Training Ministers: We Get what We Pay For
Many years ago I took a year away from my ministerial preparation at Meadville Lombard Theological School, to do a chaplain residency at a teaching hospital on Chicago’s far north side. I wanted more pastoral practice at the “thin places” between life, death, and meaning. I also wanted the extra year of spiritual guidance/pastoral counseling […]
Little Celebrations #22: Liturgical Quotables
Each time we close out our reflective time together and return to the wider world, may each of us carry with us a piece of what we gathered. Be it a smile, a piece of a song, a fractal from the warm glow we created in our mutuality, the tiniest spark grows ever greater through […]
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