Having come through this Earth Day week, we have hopefully been reminded that in the midst of our national turmoil and threat to...

Were you there when they nailed him to the tree? Were you there when they nailed him to the tree? Oh! Sometimes it causes me to tremble,...

As described last month, Howard Thurman wrote concerning the spiritual “Wade in the Water”,   [T]his man with the incurable disease…...

Done made my vow to the Lord, And I never will turn back, Oh I will go, I shall go to see what the end will be. Done opened my mouth to...

We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes.   The title of our time together comes from South African author, Olive Schreiner,...

Howard Thurman describes the spiritual “Deep River” as “a happy blending of majestic rhythm and poignant yearning”. In analyzing this...

I was drawn to the opening music after we sung it at our last service…the day that Dr. Dorsey Blake died. I was struck by a profound...

Dear friends, this was the sermon I was to have offered last Sunday, the day our beloved Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake died and our world...

If there were moments of deep despair in those years, there was also the sustaining knowledge that the quest for human dignity is part of...

There is a profound scripture that states if the present place is too small for you, carve out a place in the high country and journey...

Hello dear church, dear Beloved Community, dear friends who are connecting from faraway places. Until just recent months, I too had been...

I don't feel no ways tired I've come too far from where I've started from Nobody told me that the road would be easy And I don't believe...

This coming Wednesday is the lunar new year. Lunar calendars and new years mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people....

There must always remain in every person’s life Some place for the singing of angels, Some place for that which in itself is breathlessly...

The year 2024 is over. It was a good year in many ways. We enjoyed camaraderie and common ground with friends and strangers. There were...

Radical self-love is a term I encountered very recently in a book entitled, The Body is not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by...

We are approaching the end of the Advent season, the birth of a child whom many of us see as the “light of the world”. I would like to...

The opening music entitled, Gliese 581c was written and performed in honor of the planet in a neighboring solar system that was...

You have been invited to meet The Friend. No one can resist a Divine Invitation. That narrows down all our choices To just two: We can...

I acknowledge that I am writing from the ancestral and unceded land of the Miwok and Yokuts People.     I chose to open with the story of...

I will tell of the decree of the Living, Mighty God Who said to me, “You are my child. Today I have begotten you. Ask of me, and I will...

The song “Lift Every Voice and Sing” was written by poet James Weldon Johnson with lyrics by his brother J. Rosamond Johnson in 1900 in...

Black Hole   If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me Even the night shall be light about me… The darkness and the light are both...

Come and go with me to that land Come and go with me to that land Come and go with me to that land Where I'm bound (where I'm bound) Come...

The burden belongs to the nation, and the hands of none of us are clean if we bend not our energies to righting these great wrongs.   The...

Greetings to each of you. It’s been a week of great silence and noise, noisy politics, war, and the silence after a great storm Helene....

Wakan Tanka, Great Mystery, teach me how to trust my heart, my mind, my intuition, my inner knowing, the senses of my body, the blessings...

I have been reflecting on the concept of love lately, considering the unending news of hate throughout our world. I can think of no other...

Colt Gray a 14-year-old boy killed four people and injured nine more at Apalachee High School in Winder, Barrow County, Georgia, where he...

God is making room in my heart for compassion:  the awareness that where my life begins is where your life begins; the awareness that the...

Here comes the sun, doo-doo-doo-doo Here comes the sun, and I say It's all right Little darlin', it's been a long, cold, lonely winter...

Knock innocently – as if you were…striking one clear note, never heard before. Create enough space within to receive the force you...

The meaning of commitment as a discipline of the body is not far to seek. The theme is ancient, as old as self-consciousness in the life...

I have shared with some of you that I have never been fishing. When I was a child, my father fished some but not much. He was drafted...

During our last online check-in, I was deeply moved by the empathy expressed regarding the state of our nation. So many lamented the...

The seed of the jack pine will not be given up by the cone unless the cone itself is subjected to sustained and concentrated heat. The...

Before we can move into a new ar-rangement, we must first go through a period of de-rangement. The opening words are from artist M.C....

Link to Video - Man Dies After Placing Lit Firework on His Head Link to Video - Stray Fireworks Hit Multiple People at a Stadium Link to...

O God, grant us Your vision in our time Help us to write it so large that even a runner can see it. Make it so compelling that even a...

The opening song, known as the Black National Anthem, reminds us of our celebration this coming Wednesday of Juneteenth…the day when the...

There seems to be a valid distinction between belief and faith. Often we think of belief as having to do exclusively with a body of...

Each month I receive in my Pacific School of Religion (PSR) inbox a newsletter from the Dean of the Graduate Theological Union (GTU). It...

It’s Memorial Day Weekend originally enacted as a tribute to soldiers killed in American wars. It has become a time to remember all who...

Give me the listening ear. I seek this day the ear that will not shrink from the word that challenges me to deeper consecration and...

We can learn a great deal from the way Mother Earth holds us all – the criminals, the saints, the weak, the strong, the rich, the poor...

All that you touch you Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change. God is Change. The quote is from...

Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding and to fulfill their...

Since we are not only living in the universe but the universe is living in us, it follows, then, that the human being is an organic part...

Any close examination of the world of nature reveals that everything is painstakingly structured. In its functioning, nature operates on...

“The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love - whether we call it friendship or family or romance - is the work of mirroring and...