“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or [...]

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of [...]

For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future [...]

A short reflection on the Sunday after Christmas.

Christmas Eve 2020

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it [...]

Fourth Sunday of Advent

“The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.”
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Third Sunday of Advent

“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God [...]

Second Sunday of Advent

“In a time of destruction, create something.”
Maxine Hong Kingston

PRELUDE: Carol of the Bells
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First Sunday of Advent

“Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered [...]

“Truth never damages a cause that is just.”
 ~Mahatma Gandhi

PRELUDE: Simple Gifts
Shaker Melody, Cindy Berry, [...]