I recently started a new spiritual practice of using Scripture as inspiration for prayers of thanksgiving. Since Thanksgiving Day is included in our church calendar, I decided try this practice with the epistle from this year's Thanksgiving Day lectionary...
Sunday is the feast of Christ the King, concluding our church year. So, Sunday is a kind of liturgical “New Year’s Eve”. And next Sunday, we begin a new church year with the first Sunday of Advent. Yes, I know, it snuck up on me too! The last day of Jesus’...
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN AND THE SOFT POWER OF THE FOLK-TALE Sometimes, quite by chance, we stumble upon a story or a statement or an article in a periodical, and suddenly things that have perplexed us come into sharper focus. It has happened fairly...
This week, I had the chance of sharing lunch with my chapel team members from Union Theological Seminary. As is our tradition, we began our meeting by reflecting on the recent chapel services and discussing the upcoming ones. Our conversation naturally...
A couple of weeks ago, my dog gave me a bit of a black eye. I was able to make it less noticeable with makeup, but one day, after an exercise class, I realized that I had sweat the makeup off. I was riding the subway home, and a stranger pointed to my eye...