Pastoral Letter to the Saints at Saint Paul’s

by | Feb 28, 2019 | Church

Dear Saints of St. Paul’s, This has been a tumultuous week for United Methodists, during which international delegates to a special General Conference passed (by a 438-384 margin) a Traditional Plan retaining language in our Discipline (first approved in 1972) that...

Psalm of Psalms

by | Mar 15, 2017 | Church, Personal, Psalms, Uncategorized, Worship

One of a series chronicling a Psalm Pilgrimage. Went to bed Monday evening as a winter storm brewed up the east coast – while another storm brewed in my spirit. I had been looking at word clouds on Pinterest – particularly ones from books of the Bible,...

Psalm Portal, Part III

by | Mar 3, 2017 | Church, Learning, Psalms, Worship

Reading N.T. Wright’s The Case for the Psalms: Why They Are Essential this morning, I came across the line: …the question is more how we can find our way into their world… (page 6) This is what I’ve been struggling to articulate that happens...

Psalm Portal, Part II

by | Mar 3, 2017 | Church, Psalms, Worship

From my Prayer Journal, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2016 – Advent II Some extraordinary things have been happening with the Psalms, this Advent season. It probably began in earnest when I discovered an instrumental album interpreting Psalm 24 – Lift Up the Gates. That was...

Psalm Portal: Part I

by | Mar 3, 2017 | Church, Psalms, Worship

From my Prayer Journal, Friday, Dec. 2, 2016 – Advent I Had a breakthrough this am while stumbling on a new/old Psalm find: Ascend – Prayer Instrumentals (meditating on the ten verses of psalm 24 by the contemporary praise band, The Ramp). I already had...