Below is a prayer and benediction I shared tonight at the Transgender Day of Remembrance Ceremony in Boise. It was an honor to be a part of the evening. You can read more about the Day of Remembrance movement here. Holy One, you created humankind in your own image. Help us to move beyond the…
My Facebook and Twitter news feed the past few days has been full of news of Frank Schaefer. He is a United Methodist Pastor who was brought up on Ecclesiastical charges for presiding at the same gender marriage of his son. He’s been suspended for 30 days, which seems a legitimate response to violating his…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho on November 17, 2013. Isa 65:17-25 Luke 21:1-19 We have two very different texts today. The beautiful promise from Isaiah of God’s new heaven and new earth—where children will grow up in peace and health and wholeness to live long and productive lives. A world…
My latest post over at Revgals, for their feature “The Pastoral is Political”.
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho on November 10, 2013 Haggai 1:15b-2:9 Haggai’s prophesy dates from Aug and Dec 520 BCE, which can be dated by the dates and the names of the rulers mentioned in it. He is one of the 3 post-exilic prophets of his era (that we know…
Here is the Friday Five prompt from Karla over at Revgals: Wow, this second Friday really snuck up on me! But it is here, in all of its glory, right? So…here we go, another random Friday Five! 1. What’s up? How are you? Life is good here. Trying to be meaningfully involved and active and…
I don’t mean to be the grinch who ruined a good Facebook ‘thing’, but I’ve been conflicted about so many of my friends’ participation in the “30 Days of Thankfulness” status update extravaganza. If you haven’t seen it, each day in November, you are supposed to name one thing for which you are thankful. I…
This past week I was in Chicago for the Covenant Network of Presbyterian’s Conference “Marriage Matters”. I led a workshop on the relationship between civil and religious marriage. This is the link to the Prezi from my talk. While it doesn’t have everything that was discussed in the great workshop, it has much of it.…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho on October 27, 2013. Joel 2:23-32 Luke 18:9-14 The Book of Joel is best read in one sitting. I invite you to look through it this week. It opens with a story of destruction. Locusts invade and destroy the land. Crops fail. Fire burns. A…
Yesterday in worship, during the announcements, I took off my preacher robe to reveal a Snow White costume. It was both a promotion for our Trunk or Treat (come Trick or Treat in Southminster’s parking lot this friday at 7!) and then a dwarf came in and we did a bit about Stewardship. Sleepy…
Glass Overflowing 