I just flew in from Yosemite, and boy are my arms tired! Actually I didn’t fly to Yosemite, I drove. … Read more Starr King Mountain

In the United States, the power of the President is constrained by a large number of countervailing powers.  A President… Read more And Now We Vote

Anxiously following the “Breaking news” satisfies our need to know, but we would get better information if we waited for… Read more Slow News

Jesus in the grave.  Moses in the wilderness.  The journey from an old way of being to finding ourselves established… Read more Three Days and Forty Years

Change brings anxiety; it can’t be helped.  And anxiety brings an urge to resolve the discomfort as quickly as possible. … Read more Slow Down, Be Anxious

In times of stress we find a comfort in information.  What happened?  Who’s to blame?  What could we do differently? … Read more On Not Knowing

When Rev. Mitra Rahmena resigned last September, and until you call your next Settled Minister, probably in the summer of… Read more The Third Way

Back when I was in seminary, at the Claremont School of Theology, I took a theology class, which is what… Read more The Economics of Abundance

Good Morning. I’m excited to preach for you this first time. This is my 20th year in the ministry, and also… Read more Hello, Interims!

In an age of TED Talks and Podcasts do we need sermons?  If our churches are only organized for social… Read more Future Church