Actually listening to “Religious Nones”

I really, truly heard it for the first time: “I’m not missing something,” she said. “I don’t want you to see me as lacking. I’m perfectly fine without religion.” For some reason, I finally heard this loud and clear at a panel discussion last Friday night at the New England Synod of the ELCA (video …

An Interfaith Litany to #PrayForBoston

Please feel free to use or adapt this litany for your personal or public use. I ask that you attribute it. Behold, I will bring health and healing to the city. I will heal them and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.~Jeremiah 33:6 This is what we do when we don’t know what …

What if God is a sucker?

St. Jonh’s Episcopal Church, Beverly Farms Lent 4, Sunday March 10, 2013 Luke 15:1-3, 11-32 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. 2And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, “This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.” 3So he told them this parable 11Then Jesus said, …