Month: November 2023

Some of us are angry today.[i] Some of us have been angry at various points this year. Some of us have been angry the past several years, over the way things went. Some of us are angry that people can seem so inhuman to us. And some of us are angry that others misconstrue their…

A friend of mine once served as the associate pastor of a large suburban congregation. She was early in the first appointment of her pastorate, and compared to the more seasoned and restrained senior minister, she was more outspoken, more direct, more forthright in her sense of God’s way of justice and peace in the…

Every year, on November 1, with the characteristic cold of the season settling in, I reread this poem from Mary Oliver. Perhaps you’ve read it, too. Don’t you imagine the leaves dream now how comfortable it will be to touch the earth instead of the nothingness of the air and the endless freshets of wind?…