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Still Struggling: The Lone Road Around Loss

25th, January 2026

We all experience loss. The journey through grief is long and complex. How might we hold the journey in a way that brings at least...

A Night of Remembrance: A Special Gathering

20th, January 2026

This year, loss has been close for so many of us. It has been close for Susan and me too, after losing my father and...

After Loss, Do We Ever Find Closure?

16th, January 2026

This morning I sit with a simple, aching question. Do we ever really get closure. What I keep seeing, in Scripture, in Swedenborg’s theology, and...

Dinner: An Evening of Remembrance

8th, February 2026

Please join us for an evening of remembrance. We are gathering a group of people who struggled through a loss of a loved one in...

A Simple Definition of Faith

9th, December 2025

As Advent rises again, I feel God inviting us into a season of beginnings, a kind of holy adventure where we open our hands and...

When Things Are Hard During Christmas

4th, December 2025

As we move through this Christmas season, I find myself holding the weight of so many losses in our congregation, and maybe I feel it...

Breaking Free from Your Inner Pharaoh

30th, November 2025

There are things in your mind that want to keep you trapped. Come learn God’s plan to break you out of there! When I speak...

Dancing With a Limp

20th, November 2025

As I sit with the memories from yesterday’s funeral service, I feel again how quietly holy it is when we gather around someone’s grief and...

When There Are No Words … Try Silence

19th, November 2025

As I sit with this tender theme of grief, I feel the weight of those moments when words vanish and the heart stands exposed, and...

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Why Smart People Feel Unhappy

18th, November 2025

In today’s 10 Minutes of Morning Calm I explore why smart people feel unhappy. Many bright souls carry that question quietly. I look at how...

Learning at the Bottom

14th, October 2025

When life bottoms out, I see the quiet school of the soul open. I ask with you, what do we learn at the bottom? Where...

After the Fire: Opening Our Hearts Again

12th, October 2025

After the fire, we will all sit for a time in the ashes. But with God’s help, we stand again and find a miracle …...