Sermons

Why a Pro-Life Christian Is for President Obama

When people ask me why I am voting for Barack Obama in this election, I say, “Because I am a Christian and I vote my values.” I am pro-life, and…

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Thoughts on the Bhagavad Gita While Climbing Mount Colden

Last weekend, Tom and I took our first ever 2 day weekend away from our kids. We’ve gone on overnights before, but two nights away? It seemed impossible. Thanks to…

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Mustard Seeds and the Newport Folk Festival

Nerissa & Katryna and the Falling Down Barn in 2007 I have sudden and severe laryngitis. I can no longer yell at my kids. In fact, I feel myself to…

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Sermon on Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon at West Cummington ChurchMay 20, 2012 Tenderness does not choose its own uses.It goes out to everything equally,circling rabbit and hawk.Look: in the iron bucket,a single nail, a single…

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Why a CSA Is Like The Body Of Christ

photo by Kris McCue For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is…

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Between Friends

Lilacs about to burst, three weeks before they usually do. My friend Andrea Raphael died on Good Friday. My writing mentor and teacher Anna Kirwan died on Easter Sunday. Two…

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Antidote to Pain

I am journaling for Lent with a friend of mine who is a minister and a mom. We are using as inspiration a book called 40 Days with Kathleen Norris….

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Writing Process

Back at the Fruit Tree

Phillip Price of the Winterpills (and formally of the Maggies) once said to me that every time he got an idea for a song he wrote five different versions of…

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Perfect

I am going to take a break from my assignment of writing on the writing/recording process of each of the 13 songs on The Full Catastrophe (our 16th CD, due…