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John 3:14-21 Can you believe it’s been a whole year since pandemic protocols began?  Can you believe it’s been ONLY a year since pandemic protocols began?  Happy Anniversary! How do we mark a year like the one that’s just passed?  … Continue reading →

                                                          Mark 1:9-15 Today is technically the first Sunday in Lent.  I say “technically” because, in many ways, we’ve been living Lent since last March, haven’t we?  We’ve given up so much.  Dining in restaurants, meeting for worship, singing together, … Continue reading →

“Behind the altar on the east wall of the chapel of a Trappist monastery high up in the Rocky Mountains,  there hangs a simple wooden cross.  It will stay there until it is taken down to mark the grave of … Continue reading →

Mark 1:29-39 Thus far in the Gospel of Mark, Jesus has been baptized and sent into the wilderness for 40 days, he’s enlisted disciples, preached, been shouted at by some demons, and healed some folks.  And we’re not even out … Continue reading →

      Old Jonah…I’m not saying he was stuck in his ways…but old Jonah was stuck in his ways…his old biases…his old understandings of how God functioned in the world.  There he was, minding his own business, when he … Continue reading →

Every Epiphany at FCUCC we select “star words.” As the magi followed the star to Jesus, we follow our star words through the year.  This year, our congregation also is following a star word.  That word?  Redemption. Many of us, … Continue reading →

I’m on Day 1 of Layla Saad’s, Me and White Supremacy.  In response to Saad’s question, “What negative experiences has your white privilege protected you from throughout your life?” I named illness due to inattentive healthcare professionals or lack of … Continue reading →

(river) A lot has happened in the last five months.  The pandemic continues to rage, with 5.7 million cases and 177,000 deaths in our country thus far.  George Floyd was killed.  Protests against our country’s original sin of racism have … Continue reading →

They were hunkered down, frightened, sheltered-in-place.  Their world had changed overnight. They couldn’t imagine what the next days would hold. All they knew was that Jesus was gone.  In their grief, their uncertainty, their fear, they drew together.  These were … Continue reading →

In a meeting with one of my clergy groups this week, we talked a lot about the “both-and-ness” of the times we’re living in. The number of Covid cases in our country has topped 300,000.  There have been 8,400 deaths.  … Continue reading →