We are not finished with Memorial Day, and we never will be. I get the late May three-day weekend thrills. Ooo-eee. I hope you enjoyed some normalcy this year in that you could relax with what you have. As we move into June and the rest of the year,...

Even though the county will officially move to yellow this week, you may be one of the angry people out there. After all, some lament, our rights have been taken away for too long! The argument goes that the government shouldn’t decide when this shelter in place bit should end...

Too many people know too much these days. Turn around and you’ll find an expert on almost everything. Turn around again and you’ll find two more experts on the same subject, and yes, they both disagree with the first expert—and each other. This is certainly true in the COVID-19 world...

  A grocery store manager spoke into the future about the best practices his store will do once we are clear to slowly and safely move past the pandemic. In mid-sentence, he said something we all understand: “lift the limits.” Interestingly, the lectionary scripture from this past Sunday does exactly...

  Online worship has become our way to experience church today. Okay, online worship is the only way to experience church today, and church is something so many of us truly, dearly miss. But hold on. Ask yourself, honestly, is online worship really so bad? I am sure most or...

“Don’t touch that dial!” That well-used sentence was familiar during my earliest years in front of a television set in the era when you actually had to go to the TV and turn the dial to get another station. Now “Don’t touch that dial!” has a whole new meaning. Beyond...

  Sacrilegious! Blasphemous! Audacious! To THINK that one could have Holy Communion—I mean HOLY Communion—without a priest or pastor physically present for the hands-on of it all, i.e., the blessing of the elements? And THIS high church blessing had better be done IN church. Anything else isn’t communion. After all,...

  Let the words from the prophet Zechariah reach you on this significant Palm Sunday, April 5th. In his ancient text nestled toward the end of the Old Testament, this postexilic minor prophet writes, “Look, your king is coming to you. He is righteous and victorious yet he is humble,...

With the number of closings and restrictions coming to us from the CDC and our governor, we are all grieving these days. One area in our lives that can experience growth not grief is our spiritual lives through a practice of spiritual discipline. We can actually gain understanding, connection, wisdom...

    God didn’t cause the Coronavirus to punish us. God isn’t distant (or even absent) during this pandemic. God is however, at work. While I cannot speak for God, I do wonder what God is creating, or, perhaps more specifically, what God is creating and reimagining through us during...