So what is wrong with upside down? Well, everything, if you are properly oriented to the world. The thing is, when the world is upside down, or better, “upside down,” then everything is wrong. And, our world is upside down. We are in a time when what was formerly considered undoable, or even unthinkable, is…
Ah, change. I have heard there are some people who like change. I even believe it. But I have met many, many people who are quite open and direct about how they hate change. And yet, change seems both inevitable and worthwhile. Journalist and author Gail Sheehy said, “If we don’t change, we don’t grow….
Transfiguration Sunday comes around every church year. You can think of it as the last Sunday of Epiphany or the last Sunday before Lent but it comes up no matter what you think of it. This is the beauty and (sometimes) the challenge of following the Lectionary. I am grateful to all of those preaching…