To Whom Much Is Given (A Good Friday Meditation)

April 12, 2012.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Below is video of my closing meditation at the “Good Friday Walk,” sponsored by the Dallas Area Christian Progressive Alliance. The audio’s a bit hard to hear for the first minute…but stay with it….it gets better. Many thanks to them for asking me. (As always, if you like this post, then “share it” or “like” […]

Ash Wednesday Thoughts

February 21, 2012.Reading time 4 minutes.

None of these quotes were originally about Ash Wednesday. But all of them deeply speak to the truth of the day. A few preliminary thoughts about where we are headed tomorrow… “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because […]

Saintly Defiance

February 14, 2012.Reading time 3 minutes.

It should be said quite clearly that there’s no definitive history available for the person known as “St. Valentine.” Today is, of course, the day we celebrate in his honor, whoever he was. “Valentine” was, once-upon-a-time, a very popular name for men, since its root word is “Valor.” Archeologists have, in fact, uncovered a […]

Initial Thoughts on the Situation at St. Luke’s UMC

February 5, 2012.Reading time 8 minutes.

No doubt many readers of this blog will have already heard the allegations regarding sexual abuse of power by Tyrone Gordon, the former pastor of the St. Luke’s Community United Methodist Church. I’ve had several people, clergy colleagues and lay folk alike, asked my thoughts today, and I’ve been struggling with what, if anything, to […]

For The Time Being

January 11, 2012.Reading time 4 minutes.

“Well, so that is that. Now we must dismantle the tree, Putting the decorations back into their cardboard boxes — Some have got broken — and carrying them up to the attic. The holly and the mistletoe must be taken down and burnt, And the children got ready for school. There are enough Left-overs to […]

Home By Another Way

January 6, 2012.Reading time 3 minutes.

In honor of the day… Home By Another Way Those magic men the MagiSome people call them wiseOr Oriental, even kingsWell anyway, those guysThey visited with JesusThey sure enjoyed their stayThen warned in a dream of King Herod’s schemeThey went home by another way Yes they went home by another wayHome by another wayMaybe me […]

Five Regrets of the Dying

January 4, 2012.Reading time 1 minute.

This post originally comes from Bonnie Ware, a songwriter who worked for years in palliative care. These are folks who have come to the place where they are very near death and, more than most of us, are able to look back and see what they might have done differently. It’s a great blog, and […]

Resolve To Not Resolve

December 31, 2011.Reading time 5 minutes.

Didn’t make any New Year’s Resolutions last year. Won’t this year either. And this is from a guy that used to make them regularly. More than this, I encourage you to join me. And I hold out a strange hope that you might find yourself achieving even MORE of your goals/resolutions if you do…er, don’t. […]

Christmas at the Rainbow Room

December 25, 2011.Reading time 12 minutes.

I’m never really sure exactly when it will happen, but Christmas always comes. A true grace of this season is that –despite our best efforts at killing it– one way or another the true light manages to shine through. I was beginning to worry that maybe this year it wouldn’t happen. But then, it did. […]

Eric Folkerth’s Christmas EP

December 21, 2011.Reading time 2 minutes.

Here’s a little online Christmas EP for you. A little about each song below the player. Hope you enjoy it. About the Songs: Christmastime Is Here The classic Vince Guaraldi song from “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” I just thought it would be fun to learn it on guitar. Come Home This great song was written […]