Monthly Archives: August 2016

This summer, we’ve been exploring what it means to act the world into wellbeing.  As I contemplated how to engage that theme on this last Sunday in August—which has become a singing service—I thought about Pete Seeger.  Pete believed—really believed—that … Continue reading →

  Rhetorical question:  Who are you going to vote for in November?  How do you feel about folks who’ll be voting for the other person? At the beginning of the summer, neither today nor last Sunday had a theme.  I … Continue reading →

           The day after VBS ended, I got an email from Miss Janet:  “Let’s have a mini-VBS on Rally Sunday!”  Still in recovery mode from volunteering during VBS, I groggily typed, “What’s the theme?”  “The little … Continue reading →

Today’s homily from Betty Roth’s funeral service at Pilgrimage. Two months ago, none of us could have imagined this is where we’d be today.  Just a couple weeks before she went into the hospital, Betty–as she did every year–volunteered at … Continue reading →

Among my folk music friends, I often hear the lament:  “Where has all the movement music gone?”  Many social movements throughout history have been spurred on by music.  The labor movement in the 19th and 20th centuries and the Civil … Continue reading →