Is it more important to be right or to be kind?  Are they mutually exclusive?  Rabbi Brian Zachary Mayer, who lives and works in Portland, Oregon has…… Read more “Being Right vs. Being Kind”

If you are ever to visit my office (which I know you can’t right now, but if you could), you would see that I have a lot…… Read more “Angels”

We come to this Easter Season alive with the hope of spring. We come to this Easter Season alive with the promise of an improving pandemic. We…… Read more “Easter Eyes”

This week holds Good Friday and the cross looms large for us. Some may think it odd. How can you have a symbol of torture and death…… Read more “The Empty Cross of Love”

As a pastor of an Open and Affirming church within the United Church of Christ, I was utterly dismayed to learn that our Roman Catholic brothers and…… Read more “Erasing Progress”