Pastoral Meanderings

While I am not a fan of the Roman Catholic practice of naming the Sundays after Epiphany and Pentecost Ordinary Time, they have certainly gained a bad rap for this by the misconceptions that accompany this nomenclature.  Ordinary has come to mean simple...

Is there a more satisfying thing to say than I told you so?  If you can find it, please tell me about it.  We all want to be a prophet who can foresee the future than remind people we were right in what we saw.  It saddens me that this is about all we...

Only a fool would insist that all technology is bad or that it has had a unhealthy influence upon us and our society.  Like anything and everything, technology must be judged on its merits.  That might even be a universal statement except that the merits...

In a recent conversation I explored with a few other pastors the heightened attention given to little traditions, especially at the Christmas season.  Some complain about this, about the often rigid expectations of those who show up in church on Christmas...