Last week’s blog was about “anchor images.” This term describes a strong metaphor, a symbol, that can anchor a worship series and give us a focal point throughout. In this week’s FAQ blog, I want to visit the question that inevitably comes up in the afternoon […]
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I 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 MoreThe two previous blogs this month talked about our worship bodily “behavior”–namely clapping. One aspect of this discussion didn’t crop up yet–I think some of our discomfort with the conversation is the fact that many of us are ambivalent about whether or […]
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 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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