Backyard Gardeners

Well, I am back in the garden & have been furiously trying to plant tomatoes before the plants get too root bound or die because of the record May temperatures here in Seattle.  Evidently I am part of a rapidly growing group of urbanites who have discovered that food not only tastes better straight from [...]

Pentecost & Ascension Day

Today is Ascension Day - the day on which we commemorate Jesus ascension into heaven where he now sits at the right hand of God. For me this day is closely associated with Pentecost and the coming of the Holy Spirit which we celebrate next week. Here is a liturgy I wrote [...]

Pentecost is Coming

The day of Pentecost, fifty days after Easter, celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit and the birth of the church. I wanted to get in early with this because I have some suggestions on things to do at the end that you might like to think about as some of them need some [...]

Conspiring together

Here is the second of the morning prayers that Mark Pierson did for our conference The New Conspirators.  The emphasis is on multiculturalism and the call to part of a God’s beloved community.  It seemed an appropriate reflection for this season.

Morning Prayers for Lent: Conspiring in the Streets

Well we have finally said goodbye to the last of our international guests. Mark Pierson left this afternoon for New Zealand. His morning prayers were one of the highlights of the conference for me. Here are the powerpoint slides from Friday with the theme Conspiring in the Streets.

The series of photos for [...]

More Reflections on Lent

Well we are now into the second full week of Lent and if you are anything like me then I suspect that the busyness of life and the tyranny of the urgent that your Lenten practices are slipping into the background. With our conference The New Conspirators, just over a week away and [...]

Ash Wednesday

Well Ash Wednesday is here - a perfect time to consider our mortality and the transience of our time on earth, a good time to reflect on our lives and where we still need to be transformed by God’s work within us.  Here is a prayer from the Episcopal Ash Wednesday Service in the Book [...]

A Liturgy for Lent

LITURGY FOR LENT

Leader: God all loving and all caring,
We come before you with hesitant steps and uncertain motives
All: Our hearts are parched from wandering in a desert of sin
Leader: We want to sweep out the corners where sin has accumulated
And uncover the places where [...]

Is God In Kenya - What Kenyan Women Think

As we approach Lent it is good for us to remember those who are struggling for there very survival at this time.  Security forces have cracked down on violence but the situation is far from resolved.  Here are some very poignant thoughts from Kenyan women on Where is God in Kenya?
Part of the discipline I [...]

Reflections for Lent

Here is a short reflection video that I produced for Lent last year.