The gospel accounts of the birth of Christ give us two different traveling moments, one before the big event, and one after. The most familiar to anyone who watches animated TV Christmas specials knows this one from Luke’s gospel, the most familiar Christmas story: And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the [...]
I’ve admired this group for more years than I can count. They rose from the GMC (Gay Men’s Chorus) movement of the 1980s after the assassination of Harvey Milk, in San Francisco. In those days, a group of men found solace in the seething anger of those days by joining together on the steps of [...]
Continue reading about Saturday Video – It Gets Better) – The Turtle Creek Chorale
Continuing the thought from yesterday on “giving from our life” and what that means. Jesus said: “There is no greater love than to give one’s life for those one loves.” (adapted from John 15:9-17) To relinquish all or some great part of your life to those around you – what does it feel like? [...]
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Not every soldier in the Great Battle wears camo. I thought it would be appropriate to submit this on Memorial Day weekend… as we take time to remember our own… Aunt Ida Pieces A Quilt by Melvin Dixon They brought me some of his clothes. The hospital gown. Those too-tight dungarees, his blue choir robe [...]
Continue reading about Ours and Ours … a Meditation for Memorial Day
Today is the annual Day of Silence, a day when we stop, in silence, to support our kids and protect them from bullying, abuse, name-calling and harrassment in schools. Not only our children in College, but all the way down into the grades. As long as these children have to face this abuse, we must [...]
