Mar 26, 2021
Beloved Friends, Idioms, particular sayings or expressions can be powerful and positive; they can also be haunting and even trauma-inducing. The phrase “Silence=Death” is one of the latter for me. First introduced in 1987 by a group of gay men in New York City during...
Mar 17, 2021
Beloved friends, As the devastating news out of the Vatican filled the internet earlier this week, I found myself weeping and unable to make sense of this horrific and unjustifiable miscarriage of justice. Needing to respond in some positive way, I decided to extend...
Mar 11, 2021
Beloved Friends, Here we are turning the corner as we continue the journey we call Lent. And while we are well on our way, I find myself drawn this week to needing the invitation below to receive a blessing even now for the rest of our travels. We have traversed the...
Mar 4, 2021
Beloved Friends, Exactly a year ago I sat down to write what felt like an impossible message to you all. I can still remember sitting here at my desk at home staring at the blank screen with a knot in my stomach not knowing what for the life of me I was going to say...
Feb 25, 2021
Beloved Friends, I write to you today with a heavy heart as we try to comprehend the magnitude of death and loss run rampant throughout our country since last Spring. There are days I cannot bear to even turn on the news for fear of hearing more dire statistics and...
Feb 18, 2021
Beloved Friends- Welcome to our Lenten journey. Lent is our season in the church that began two days ago on Ash Wednesday (February 17th), leads us over the course of a 40-day pilgrimage of sorts, takes us to Holy Week (March 28th- April 3rd) and then, eventually, to...