“Holy! Ours! bodies! suffering! magnanimity! Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!” –Allen Ginsberg,...

“There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” --C.S. Lewis I’m a music nut, if you hadn’t noticed! And lately I’ve been...

“For me, walking in a hard Dakota wind can be like staring at the ocean: humbled before its immensity, I also have a sense of being at...

“The miracle has only half its effect if it only convinces us that Christ is God: it will have its full effect if whenever we see a...

“Never place a period where God has placed a comma.” --Gracie Allen Gracie Allen’s quote is where the United Church of Christ gets its...

“We are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.” --Laura Ingalls Wilder Happy Holidays...

“There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.” --Madeleine L’Engle...

“We must all do theatre, to find out who we are, and to discover who we could become.” --Augusto Boal, Brazilian theater practitioner &...

“For though my faith is not yours and your faith is not mine, if we are each free to light our own flame, together we can banish some of...

“You take it on faith, you take it to the heart - the wai-i-iting is the hardest part." --Tom Petty, "The Waiting" Happy New Year! …New...

“Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and...

“To hope is to gamble. It's to bet on your futures, on your desires, on the possibility that an open heart and uncertainty is better than...

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.” --Ernest Hemingway Around Veterans Day (or...

“I am reminded of the biblical use of the term saint in the book of Acts. That it applies to each of us. All who are attempting to...

"If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own.” --Wes Nisker The death of Washington Post writer Jamal Khashoggi at the...

“God gave us music, that we might pray without words." (from an inscription on a German opera house) At the Fall Meeting of the Prairie...

“Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.” --Mohandas K. Gandhi There are two cardinal sins...

“But what is there to see? The answer, of course, is nothing. Land, sky, and the ever-changing light.” --Kathleen Norris (from Dakota: A...

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” --Ian McLaren TW: sexual assault It's a difficult moment to be a woman in...

“Diversity is being invited to the party; inclusion is being asked to dance.” –Verna Myers This past Sunday I preached about encountering...