Prayerful Thoughts & Wonderings

Next Monday is our annual holiday celebrating the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. As we approach the day I've been thinking about some of the amazing contributions he made to our civil discourse and practical Christian theology. His book Strength to Love is one of my goto books when studying deeper on love, forgiveness and grace. I believe that prayer is an important exercise in developing what Dr. King called a "capacity to forgive" in Strength to Love. As I was thinkin

I'm sharing my sermon notes from the first Sunday of Advent, November 30th, 2025, and the meaning of this season. The Gospel text for the day was Matthew 24:36-44 - Jesus said “But about that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. For as the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entere

Fall is not a liturgical season, but it’s definitely a season of life and visible transition for us here in North America and for...

May we in our daily prayers, using this site and all the other resources with which we've been so blessed, feel that Spirit and those prayers lifted alongside our own. Amen!

I had an experience almost thirteen years ago when I went up to Princeton Theological Seminary for a week-long summer session on...

While preparing for a Sunday sermon I was meditating on the story of the fig tree told by Jesus in Luke's Gospel, Luke 13:1-9 . Jesus...

The practice of praying with what is called a "daily office" is truly an ancient tradition, and it reflects the wisdom of having our days...