On God’s Time (Rewind 7/26/2001)
This post is a sermon I preached at Community United Methodist Church of Wayland, Massachusetts in the summer of 2001. By viewing things historically, we are forced to think in…
This post is a sermon I preached at Community United Methodist Church of Wayland, Massachusetts in the summer of 2001. By viewing things historically, we are forced to think in…
[Note: The following post was included as a Lenten reflection for Edwards Church, UCC’s daily reflections on “Sacred Conversations” in 2015.]
[Note: The following post was included as a Lenten reflection for Edwards Church, UCC’s daily reflections on “Sacred Conversations” in 2015, adapted from my thoughts in my post entitled In…
Ten years have passed this week since my last grandparent died, my mother’s mother. I never had a chance to know the other three very well. Grandma was all I…
Yesterday, I was honored to play the funeral of a long-standing member of our church. I hadn’t seen him a lot in recent years, but hold his wife as one…
This article appeared in the Fall 2014 issue of Worship, Music & Ministry, the journal of the United Church of Christ Musicians Association. It was my first published article. Introduction…
I learned recently about the death of one of my classmates from college. Chris’ was a combination of talents like I’d never seen, which I may never see again. I…
It’s been an unusual week for me. I hesitate to use words that come easily like “terrible” or “worst ever” because I know that there are people with whom I’m…
Yesterday marked the end of my fifth year as choir director at Edwards Church, UCC in Framingham, Massachusetts. This means that in less than six years, I have made…
This post is the working copy of a sermon I gave at Edwards Church, UCC in Framingham, MA on May 18, 2014. The live version deviates a bit, in that…