Minister's Musings

In United churches across the country this Sunday, communities of faith will celebrate Camping Sunday. Some churches may decorate the chancel with tents or fake campfires, others may hand out marshmallows to everyone who enters. And a few camp songs will be sung! read more

We are finally here in this intense week we call Holy. Today the gym is set up for prayer- different kinds of spiritual practice linked to 12 different people who journeyed with Jesus.  Open from 3 to 8, I hope you will drop in for a moment, walk the labyrinth, take a breath. read more

For the last five weeks we’ve been focusing on the practice of laying down our burdens. In order to lay a burden down we need to pay attention to it, understand our relationship to it, figure out why we are still holding on and how it’s feeding us, and then figure out if we’re ready to let it go, and then … let it go. read more

Every once in a while I hear people say, “I am taking a break from …” Maybe it is social media. Maybe it is drinking. Maybe it is school. It may even be church. Every time I hear this I think, well that’s good (except when its church). People are not just blindly going along, letting their lives take over themselves. It is a sign of agency, people taking the wheel of their own lives by cutting something out and creating space. read more

Oh my goodness – laying down the burden of control in 250 words or less… There are a lot of unknowns in life, aren’t there? read more

No minister’s musing today – I’m too afraid to write about laying down the burden of fear. Just kidding. read more