No RSVP needed! Just log in at noon with your cuppa and your sandwich. As is usual for Lenten Lunches, I will offer a devotion which this year will be from a collection of devotions for Lent called Lent of Liberation: Confronting the Legacy of American Slavery. These 40 devotions (one for each day) are…
Star Island Programming Opportunities
Star Island is a non-profit organization under the auspices of the United Church of Christ and the Unitarian Universalist Churches. They usually host various multi-day events on the island, just about a 40-minute boat ride off the coast of Portsmouth, NH. It's a stunningly beautiful place. This year, none of us will be able to…
Audi alteram partem
Devotion offered at the State House, January 16, 2013 I am not a fan of Latin in the church. It is a dead language and the church is struggling not to be dead; struggling to be an institution that can be in fruitful dialogue with other viewpoints -- not so that it can foist it's…
Springtime In the Human Soul
My eldest daughter who is in sixth grade this year went on a school trip to Saco, ME where they spent 4 days at an ecology school on the coast. She has become, like most 12 year olds, annoyingly loud, brash and very social. She thinks she is pretty hot stuff. So, she was very…
Desecration and the Sacred
Devotion given at the Vermont State House, January 2012 I am currently reading the new translation of Homer's The Iliad. I love it. I am embarrassed to say, that I've managed to go through 8 years of higher education without reading The Iliad. It is quite gory and quite enjoyable. I like the Greeks. I've…