With heroes like the ones our popular culture has imagned, who needs villains? Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

You have heard it said the gospel isn't political, is but a personal matter. But I say unto you, can't it be both? Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

The Transfiguraton is a vision of the end broken into time, enered into the middle that might encourage is our living--and Lord knows we need encouragement, and moreover courage, these days. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Reasons for fretting are rife. Reasons for faith? Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

The Holy Spirit is with the people. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

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Take a minunte. Consider yourself. Then do the works of love. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Good news to the poor? Check. Recovery of sight to the blind? Check. Day of vengeance for our God? Not so much. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

This is a talk I prepared for a 2024 honoring of MLK Day, which I reworked for a gathering in 2025. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Those empty cisterns need to be filled. Montery Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Fire isn't settled as to its meaning in scripture. So be not afraid. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Some get, some don't. Is that okay with you? Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Christmas harks us to a gauzy past. It should rather poress us into an imperitive future. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Wrong again! What a gift! Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

And all flesh shall see it together! Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Melodious Accord came to Church on the Hill to sing in Advent. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenonx (UCC)

"What is truth?" Pilate asks, not recognizing that truth is there in the room with him. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill Lenox (UCC)

Jesus' counsel was clear: resist, don't revolt. Time for rebuilding for the sake of better justice is coming. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

The poor widow wasn't to be praised. Rather, the Tample was to be shamed. We're not morally upright when we cooperate with power structures that exploit. Jesus meant something else altogether. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

We will be forgotten. We are remembered. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

This last encounter of Jesus' ministry wastes no time. Bartimeaus is ready to go. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

You say you want a revolution? Well, we all want to change the world. But is revolution our best option? Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox

Possessing instread of allowing yourself to be possessed: you might lack this one thing too. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

There can be joy in being wrong. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

This one goes out to Thomas Hobbes, Mark Lilla, Jeffery Goldberg, and my next door neighbor from long ago whose name I can't remember but whose question to me I do. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

You catch more flies with honey than vwith vinegar. So why does Jesus front with vinegar? Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Can indeed the Lord dwell on earth? Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Jesus can take it. He seems actually to really want to take it. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

People love their gardens--and some are even willing to work for them. Others just want a hammock to swing in. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

An ironic podcast, offered in the hope that in its mechanical reproduction it doesn't too much decay. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

John understands the power of the people to be the source of temptation, doing the devil's work, as it were. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

What are we supposed to do? Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Take your rest. God's purpose is being accomplished. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

When your power to act is frustrated by liomitation, consider if God's love rather than some terrible offense. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

What a wild idea. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

It's happening. Do you not perceive it? Do you not want to join in on it? Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

We're back in Ordinary Time, the steady of walk of faith through the many weeks of the season after Pentecost. With this, we take a breather following many litugical high points. Just in time for some summer rest. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Trinity Sunday: the annual reminder that this isn't a doctine, it's a dynamic. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Happy birthday, church. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Who loses when we bring such calous disregard to our institutions? Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

For those who are cut off or isolatyed or cast out of all generation, the Church is a body for new possiblity. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Taking up the cross isn't to hammer others with it but to excercise a willingness to be the one hanging from it. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Requesting to see the wounds isn't doubt, and isn't morbiod fascination. It's Thomas leading us away from his own nationalism into real faith. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Happy Easter! Now, let's get going. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

The day is surely coming, but until it's here this will do. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

The church gathers for what may be, and by this we give occasion for it to be. Impossible love! Imperitive love. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Time offers a different sort of temple in which the church can gather. It requires a lot less maintanance. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Who requires the suffering of Christ? We've often gotten that important quesiton wrong. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Maybe it's time to changeg our minds about God, that God isn't about ruin but about repair. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Sometimes what's shiny objects to our refusal to allow it to be more than that. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)