This time of year offers no respite for the worship designer. Just when we get Lent rolling, Holy Week looms and then Easter! And for those of us that understand Easter as not just the end of Holy Week but the beginning of the “Great 50 Days,” we really are looking […]
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On this Saturday before the first Sunday in Lent, I am sitting at a San Francisco apartment with an incredible view of Alcatraz and the whole Bay where I am dog-sitting my wonderful English Bulldog friend, Lola. Lola was born during another Lent season a few years ago […]
Read MoreWhen I left church this morning there were no less than 5 people (who I didn’t know since I was a visitor to this church) that looked at me with radiant faces and told me to have a great day. I returned the sentiment to one fellow and he said, “I will… now!” […]
Read MoreI love reading the editorial messages in the front of magazines. In a recent one, the editor was exclaiming the fact that even though it was early fall, the magazine was focused on spring already. Of course they are! A good magazine must be looking ahead and preparing […]
Read MoreWhen I was twelve years old, I put my little cassette tape player in the front pew, played some soaring music, had someone read the Isaiah passage about “wings as eagles” and I danced my first dance in church. The folks in this little rural church loved children […]
Read MoreLast week’s blog featured a cartoon of an usher asking a couple before showing them to seats in the sanctuary, “Clapping or nonclapping?” This cartoon always gets a big laugh in my workshops because it strikes a chord with so many congregations who struggle with […]
Read MoreEvaluating worship ought not be like the evaluating we do in our politics. But too often it is. I’m in Minnesota right now teaching a faithful group of Unitarian Universalist leaders from the Prairie Star District that stretches from the northern border of the U.S. […]
Read More(above: one of the participating worship teams jumps for joy at the Tahoe retreat center pier) Where can you experience all seasons in just a few days? Lake Tahoe! And that’s just what happened… in more than one way! Almost 90 people from around the country […]
Read MoreWith All Saints on the horizon, I’ve been ruminating here on beautiful, symbolic ritual actions. But an incredible moment can “tank” when we don’t think about details… especially when it involves FIRE! Hi, I’m Marcia. I am a candle-holic. Seriously, at one […]
Read MoreAs I write this I know many of you are planning All Saints/All Souls Sunday. But I also know that so many of you have the task of creating memorials frequently as you pastor and usher folks through rites of life, death and life beyond death. These times can be some […]
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