Psalm 19 teaches humility—the wisdom to know that we are all fallible, that we can’t always detect our own errors. Like respectfulness, truthfulness, and mercy, humility isn’t weak, as Bishop Budde reminded us last week. You can leave space for the possibility that you might be wrong, but still take a stand for the things you believe are right.
There’s a gap between Martin Luther King’s dream for America and the reality of America. No, not just a gap: more like a gulf.
The four gospels have four interesting stories of the baptism of Jesus. There’s a fifth I wish we had as well.
Are you afraid of 2025, as I confess I am, sometimes? The prolog to the Gospel of John has an antidote.
Here’s a quartet in church, singing my song “All Shall Be Well, Noël”.
For the fourth Sunday in Advent, a new hymn about the Star of Bethlehem, and how God continues to show us the way.
Gaudete Sunday, the third Sunday of Advent, is all about rejoicing. We practiced some things that can bring a little more happiness into our lives: cheerful greetings, peaceful contemplation, and a new Christmas hymn.
Here’s a different take on the legend of the talking animals at the birth of Jesus: what if the animals were all just waiting for us humans to finally get a clue?
For the First Sunday in Advent, I introduced a new hymn, “Be Born in Us Tonight.” It treats the presence of Christ, not as something that happened in the past, nor as something that might happen in the future, but as something that can happen in us right now.
We have a lot of rousing hymns about crowning Jesus king. They’re fun to sing, but Jesus always preferred more humble metaphors.