Journal
Sermons
On Navigating in Disorienting Times
This is a sermon I delivered at the West Cummington Church on Lay Sunday Feb 16, 2025 Right before the election of 2016, my parents sold their lovely Virginia property,…
posted February 16, 2025
Dog
Sermons
A Sermon for White America: Dyson
After Saturday, I felt happier than I have felt since, oh, about Columbus Day Weekend–– and I didn’t even march. But I felt like I did. Tom and the kids went…
posted January 24, 2017
Sermons
Confessions of an Undecided Democrat–And Why I Will Remain So
I started, a few weeks ago, to write a piece on the Democrats, to confess that I was still undecided. I still am today, less than a week before my state’s…
posted February 24, 2016
Parenting/The Full Catastrophe
Sermons
We wake up when the bombs come home
Every month or so, one of my children comes into our bedroom just before bedtime and collapses into my arms. “I am thinking about dying again,” the child says, and…
posted November 17, 2015
Sermons
“A Thousand Times More Frightening”
The Friday after the Charleston shooting, I met with my group of ministers—a monthly meeting that’s evolved over the past four years into what we call the Underground Seminary. We…
posted June 28, 2015
Parenting/The Full Catastrophe
Sermons
Love and Containers
My dog Stella went out hunting in our back yard last Friday. We watched her tear through the melting snow, disappearing out back behind the barn. We saw her reappear, crouch…
posted April 2, 2015
Music
Sermons
Gospel of John, Lennon: Darkness and Light
Can it really be thirty-five years ago that John Lennon was murdered? He was 40 at his death; soon he will be 40 years gone. I keep checking my math,…
posted December 9, 2014
Parenting/The Full Catastrophe
Sermons
Equinox
I am writing this during my September Equinox retreat. It’s already chilly–I put my wool socks on last weekend when we played the Turtle Hill Festival, and I haven’t traded…
posted September 20, 2014
Sermons
The Snag of Not Forever
It’s the last day in the studio, at least until September. Truthfully, we are almost done. I have to do vocals on the choruses of “Dave Hayes,” the chorus of…
posted August 30, 2014
