Sunday Eucharist | 10:30 (Choral)
A Coming Nativity
This week, we end our time of waiting and preparation, and receive the One who comes to us as a small child. Our hymns sing of the glory of the Lord shining forth, a star guiding one and all to…
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Ridwell Recycling
Moving to Tacoma and finding that glass recycling was not picked up curbside was a disappointmentto Maria and me, seeing as how it’s the cleanest thing to recycle. I buy food products in glass bottles over plastic whenever possible. I…
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Parks and the Wild
You may remember a few days ago when the heavens opened (to coin an original phrase). Rain really poured and the winds made themselves known and there were strikes of lightning. Wow! In the calm the day after, Jeanie and…
Embracing Our Creatureliness
Imagine if your body parts and organs could be replaced with bionic counterparts – imagine being unhindered by the constraints that embodiment places upon us. Would we as humans no longer be vulnerable to disease and damage? Would we continue…
Sing it! We Are Family!
Like many of us, I take our little dog for her early morning walk, sometimes in pjs, more often dressed for the day. One lot at the corner of our block is enclosed in a dense, green, leafy hedge. As…
Becoming in Place
We proclaim a God who created a place, who made a place among a particular people, who became a human place in Jesus, and invites us humanity to celebrate, work, and rest alongside God in this place. What is this place? What does it mean to dwell in a place, to be shaped by the culture and politics of a place, to be vulnerable bodies in a broken place, to create a place of belonging and compassion through community and liturgy? What kind of place are we, and what kind of place are we becoming?
The Urban Coyote
I am coyote, canis latrans, “The laughing dog.” But I am no ordinary coyote. I am Urban Coyote. I live right here in Tacoma and in cities across the country. People are surprised to see me in the concrete jungle…
Caveat Mundus
The news these last few weeks has been so sensational, it’s no surprise that what doesn’t have a simple sound-byte or grisly video slides under the radar. But for anyone who cares about Creation (or children…or their own personal safety…),…
A Poetics of Creation Care
“Where there is no vision the people perish” (Proverbs 29:18) In biblical language the word “vision” means the sense of the presence of God. If we see the world with this sense, we see everything as a manifestation of the…