At the beginning of our first service I told a true story which I have since written out and titled Being a force of nature. Another possible title would be “Ethics is what you decide to do.”

Evolution is an ascent toward consciousness ( Teilhard de Chardin )
For we are the local embodiment of a Cosmos […]

In a few weeks the Clematis vine that is climbing up the side of our house and onto the screen window will bloom. For many years this vine grew unnoticed where I planted it behind a rock at a corner of the house. Now, it dominates its surroundings, and when blooming its white flowers and […]

There have been so many public, painful, hurtful events in recent months – the terrible tragedy at Virginia Tech, The West Nickel’s Mines School shootings last October, the brutal storms that have ripped rural Kansas over and over again, the Atlantic storm that made whole neighborhoods uninhabitable especially on the Maine coast, or today’s frantic […]

The weather folk say that tomorrow we will have two or three inches of snow. No wonder Mark Twain said that being a weatherman in New England was a dangerous occupation. I don’t want to complain but our Magnolia Trees clearly think it’s Spring and I wouldn’t want to tick them off – you should […]

This is, they say, the season of anticipation, the season of waiting, of hope and expectation. As I write, we are awaiting the first real snowfall, maybe a blizzard, maybe a mess of ice, snow and slush. Puxatawny Phil didn’t see his shadow on a grey, grim February Groundhog Day so maybe Spring will come […]