When I sat down to write my Earth Day sermon this week, the first thing I did was turn up the heat. Oops …

I asked a tree to help me with my Easter sermon.

Here are some moderately interesting things about Palm Sunday, and one that’s really important.

Science and religion should be friends; they have similar goals and similar weaknesses.

March 25th is the Feast of the Annunciation, otherwise known as Lady Day.

The story of Jesus healing a centurion’s slave hits one of the deepest notes of the Way of Jesus: the equality of all people in the eyes of God. We can take that lesson to heart by addressing the exclusion and oppression that folks with unpopular gender identities are now facing.

Are you feeling, maybe, a little Lent-ed out already?

The story of the Transfiguration is not a mere collection of facts. It’s a legend that rings with truths.

In Jesus’ Sermon on the Plain, he gives some pretty plain teachings. Why do we act as if we’re excused from listening to them?

Prayers for everyday occasions—like Rabbi Irwin Keller’s prayer for watching the news—help us to be recollected in God throughout the day.