In reading the newspapers and watching posts, I was surprised by how much people were writing about The Odyssey, a new film released last month based on a Greek poem from antiquity. The amount of free publicity generated by all the commentary surprised me. The studio’s publicity team could not have been more pleased.   […]

We often see ourselves as martyrs in a world where people exclude us from their activities, yet, sometimes we may be excluding others from our activities for reasons we don’t fully understand. At our Pride Booth we held ourselves up as a place where everyone is accepted. While I was at the booth, that phrase […]

I am a liberal. What does that mean? Nowadays I think it means I always try to look for a win-win situation.   In listening to speculation and arguments about differing political theories, I hear more frequently about how “might makes right” and “the powerful call the shots.” Until recently, I had taken it for […]

Did you ever have a joke fall flat? I certainly have. And I’m sure some I’ve heard some that I’ve taken the wrong way. I think it illustrates the difference between intentions and perceptions. A successful joke along these lines is “Who’s on first, what’s on second and I dunno’s on third.” When hearing Abbot […]

On May 10th we celebrate our Flower Communion. It is spring, and we are celebrating good things. For the first time since I’ve been the senior minister, I’ve gone to a florist to arrange the elements of our flower communion, having done it myself up until now, having come from the background of the greenhouse […]

For those who may not have heard or read yet, I will be retiring from People’s Church in June, 2027. In some way or another, I have been officially hanging around or working at People’s Church since 2006. In fact, while cleaning at home, I came across some old Medieval History notes that I used […]

It is wonderful to hear the experience a member had with the OverGround Railroad, transporting a person from the Baldwin Detention Center to their home in Grand Rapids. It is available to hear on FaceBook near the start of the February 22 Sunday Service. For those who do not know about the OverGround Railroad, some […]

We are about halfway through winter now. It’s hard to believe and demonstrates to me how quickly time goes. This isn’t to say that we will necessarily be seeing or feeling spring anytime soon—quite the opposite—but it does indicate that time does move at its own pace, whatever else is happening and however closely I […]

At the Christmas Brunch someone shared with our table how her relative who lived in Perth, Australia, was experiencing 104 degree weather. It’s hard for me to imagine celebrating New Year like we celebrate the 4th of July (only 20 degrees hotter…in a good year). But, while 104 degrees seems excessively hot to me, it […]