Monthly Archives: December 2022

‘Tis the season!’  But ‘tis the season for what?  According to any retail outlet, since about mid-October it’s been the Christmas season, the season to buy, buy, buy!  Does it sometimes feel as if the retailers get the better end … Continue reading →

At its annual meeting in October, the Florida Conference of the UCC approved a resolution for adoption by the national church’s General Synod next summer in support of people who are transgender.  (Copies…)  Working on the resolution with a team … Continue reading →

            Dressed in overalls and a flannel shirt, environmental poet Wendell Berry leaned against the podium in our seminary ethics class deep in thought.  “If I can imagine it, I can do it,” he’d just told us.  We waited, watching something … Continue reading →

Today’s Gospel lesson–the raising of Lazarus–is an odd text for All Saints Sunday.  Here we are, remembering people who have died this year, including our beloved UCT members, AJ, Sue, and Laura.  Others of us have lost children, siblings, fathers, … Continue reading →