My author copies of What You Didn't Learn in Sunday School have arrived!

My author copies came in today!   What You Didn’t Learn in Sunday School: Women Who Didn’t Shut Up & Sit Down can be purchased at Wipf & Stock. It will be available to buy from Amazon.com in 6-8 weeks, and from Ingram in 4 weeks. The Kindle version will be released in 3-6 months. [...]

 
What You Didn't Learn in Sunday School is now available to purchase!

What started out as a self-published E-book on this site is now available for purchase from Wipf & Stock Publishers! What You Didn’t Learn in Sunday School: Women Who Didn’t Shut Up & Sit Down can be purchased as a paperback here for $11.20. Later this month it will be available on both Amazon and [...]

 

Watch with me, men, women, and children dear, You whom I love, for whom I hope and fear, Watch with me this last vigil of the year. Some hug their business, some their pleasure scheme; Some seize the vacant hour to sleep or dream; Heart locked in heart some kneel and watch apart. Watch with [...]

 
Feast of the Holy Innocents: Rachel still weeps

“The light shines into the darkness, And the darkness did not overcome it.” That does not mean The darkness didn’t try. The darkness was not overcome …without a fight. It fought through Herod– It’s constant companion; A wonderful ally Was Herod to the dark. A threat to the throne He’d killed so many He murdered [...]

 
A Christmas Poem

Wisdom builds herself a house. A holy place of tissue and muscle A sacred place of blood and water Working patiently, she weaves away Chiseling bone, sculpting sinew. Wisdom builds herself a house. Enlarging, expanding, developing Beating heart, pumping lungs Counting out ten little fingers Ten little toes. Wisdom builds herself a house. And bids [...]

 

“A voice is heard in Ramah; Rachel is weeping for her children, for they are no more. Lord God, Father of the Holy Innocents of Bethlehem, we pray to you for the Holy Innocents of Newtown, for their families, and for all of this broken world. Holy God, holy and mighty, holy and immortal, have [...]

 
Sermons: Tables of Love

I preached this sermon on Thanksgiving 2007. Tables of Love Scripture Readings: Psalm 100; Deuteronomy 26:1-11; Philippians 4:4-9; John 6:25-35 When I think of tables, I think of eating with friends and family. Through the years these tables have taken different shapes and forms. Sometimes it’s just me and another person and at other times [...]

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