What Do You Want Me to Do for You?

Then Jesus said to him, “What do you want me to do for you?” – Mark 10:51 I don’t want to steal any thunder from Rev. Wendy, who is preaching this Sunday, but I cannot get this question out of my head. I was absolutely going to write about something else...

Signature Scriptures

“Have this mind in you”, says the apostle Paul, “that was in Jesus Christ, who though being in the form of God did not think equality with God something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave being born in human likeness. And being found in...

Porous Denominations: A Vision for Unity

It has been a long time since I have given serious thought to the “scandal of denominations”. Sarah’s sermon on Sunday, however, brought it back to my attention, and I wondered if she was expressing a perspective of a new generation of Christian thinkers who have...

Fall in Love, Stay in Love…Let It Decide Everything

“I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.”  – William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 4, Scene 1 I have seen Much Ado About Nothing many times, and just saw it again (twice!) while at the American Players Theater in Spring Green,...

Christ among the Children

Apparently, a child up to the age of six has little notion of time. I learned this while undertaking an orientation of Grace’s Catechesis of the Good Shepherd program. Jennifer Bell, our catechist guide for the day said that it takes at least two hours, and ideally...