Recently, a friend of mine whom I’ve always known to be optimistic and full of life—invariably ready for the next adventure–told me he was feeling out of sorts; that he was feeling “blah” and kind of “down.” Even though we’ve spent… Read More ›
Theological Reflections
Theological reflections utilizing scripture, poetry, news stories, and other sources.
Yearning for Zion
A few years ago NASA scientists announced that the earth once had three moons—in addition to the one with which we are familiar, there were two smaller moons orbiting the earth, both of which were at some point destroyed. I’ve… Read More ›
Let Me Die!
It was early in my shift at the hospital where I work as a chaplain and I’d been paged to the intensive care unit. As I stepped out of the elevator and made my way down the hallway to the… Read More ›
Lost in the Wilderness
I read the headline on my phone while still lying in bed, Geraldine Largay’s Wrong Turn: Death on the Appalachian Trail. As I scrolled through the article I wondered how it was possible for someone to get lost on this well-beaten path… Read More ›
Shelter In Place
The 2015 attack on the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs lasted nearly five hours as the terrorist held first responders at bay after killing two people in the clinic and then soon after, a police officer. Nine people were… Read More ›
As God Sees
Seattle has long been a magnet for those who live on the margins of society. It’s a prosperous liberal city with a decent track record of caring for its citizens who are in need. The relatively temperate climate makes it… Read More ›
Behind the Notes
In an article about stage fright in the New Yorker magazine Joan Acocella writes, “As musicians, especially, will tell you, what they are doing up there is not meeting an agreed-upon goal but, rather, creating something new. Vladimir Horowitz [the great… Read More ›
Hiding
What is the Universe calling you to do? Are you answering that call? If not? Why not? I ask these questions because I need to be asking them of myself. Periodically, life circumstances allow me to be reinvented. (It’s part… Read More ›
Be Healed
“Quit trying to figure everything out!” Why do I keep hearing this in my head? I don’t even remember who used to say this to me. A therapist or teacher? Periodically, this admonition rises to the mucky surface… Read More ›
In One Place
The importance of having a strong sense of community and an awareness of its benefits is well known to those who work for social justice and seek to build grassroots-based movements that serve the wellbeing of the individuals… Read More ›
