Moon*Forest*Bone

I'm reading Gil Rendle's engaging book on "The Multigenerational Congregation." His general thesis is that our congregatio...

A quick thought... I'm reading my texts for a J-Term (January) class. Just learned something that either didn't stick, or wasn't...

I've held off posting on this as the issues continue to be complex and to change shape. However, the announcement from Gibbs, at the whi...

I've been watching in amazement as lobby groups, Republican lawmakers, and right-wing "pundits" whip Americans into fear-fuele...

Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) is almost my entire world right now. I'm working full time at a major hospital which is the region...

Mary Oliver's poetry has been on my mind (just completed a final paper focussing on her poetry.) So it a poem came to mind on this Memor...

I just completed the course "Our Theological House" offered by Starr King School for the Ministry. The course explored Unitarian U...

First, a Definition of Terms: Appropriation - The act of participating in a ritual or meaning making event, or the use of an artifact (or re...

Or, on what theological basis rests our commitment to Educating to Counter Oppression One core Unitarian, and Universalist, value is a value...

I'm taking the plunge. I pulled all my websites down about 6 years ago when I realized I didn't much like having personal informatio...

A possible congregational covenant of membership: "We, the members of [name of congregation] do covenent together in the spirit of lov...

Ministry is a lot like parenting. When you are a parent your heart is walking around outside your body. For the minister that heart is the m...

Call. The traditional understanding of a call to ministry is that the call comes from God. That’s an odd word for someone like me, who spent...

I was raised among a reverence for innocence. Later, in women's studies courses I discovered the damage done to women by this reverence ...