Minister’s Musings

Dear Ones- Welcome to September and another exciting congregational year! I don’t know about you, but for me there’s a sense of “coming home” this time of year.  There is, for me, comfort in the familiar rhythms of a new…

Dear Ones- Our theme for May is “Come to the Table”. Do you remember when you were a child and your family would call out, “Come to the table!” You may have been playing, or involved in some project, but…

Dear Ones- I love Spring. There is just something so wonderful about the lengthening of days, the warming weather, the blossoming of flowers and trees. The ground is warming, the sun is shining and so much of life is emerging…

Dear Ones- Our theme for March is “Moving Out of Scare City”- a rather clever (to my mind, at least) play on “scarcity”. Interestingly, both of these ideas have to do with “fear”.  A culture of scarcity is, of course,…

Dear Ones- Our theme for the month of February is “The Outsiders”. I admit, I often struggle with this concept.  On the one hand, our goal as Unitarian Universalists and as people of faith (and simply as decent human beings!)…

Dear Ones- Welcome to 2018!  Happiest of New Year wishes!  May you find peace, joy and beauty in your life, may your dearest wishes come true, and may each promise you make to yourself find fulfillment. I know, I know-…

Dear Ones- Our worship theme for December is “Awed and Odd”, and as part of developing our worship themes, I try to find an “anchor image” that speaks to me in some way about it.  When I saw this vision…

Dear Ones: Our theme for the month of November is “Roll Down, Justice!”  The series is inspired by the Hebrew Prophet Amos, whose message calls us to let “justice roll down like waters.” So, what does justice look like to…

Dear Ones- Our worship theme for the month of October is “Touching the Sacred in All” So how will you touch the sacred? How will you be a helper? The other day on my Facebook feed, a friend wrote: “As…

Dear Ones- This installment of “Minister’s Musings” is, in some ways, a kind of “Part 2” to last month’s article on worship. As you’ll recall, in that article I talked a bit about what I see as “worship theory” (I’m…