May 23, 2024 Another poem for Pentecost and the season after. PENTECOST by Derek Walcott Better a jungle in the headthan rootless concrete.Better to stand bewilderedby the fireflies’ crooked street; winter lamps do not showwhere the sidewalk is lost,nor can these tongues of snowspeak for the Holy Ghost; the self-increasing silence of words dropped from a […]

May 15, 2024 Worship: A Multigenerational and Shared ExperienceSuggestions for Living into the Grace of it All Did you know? Worship is a shared experience. It is an embodied experience. It is meant to give us an experience of what God’s Kingdom, of what Beloved Community is like. In worship, we all participate. We get to practice […]

May 8, 2024 Another poem for Eastertide! Into One Spiritan Eastertide poem, on baptismSarah Agnew it runs, it frolics, it drives a pathinto the earthslowly deeperquickening keeper of the rootsfurrowed alongsidefrom the profligate scatteringof seeds some time agoit runsa way both followingand beckoning, respondingand callingit runsaloneyours aloneand yet it joinsa river running far beneath all riversearth […]