Relentless Redemption

This is an article I wrote for the Bennington Banner. Here is a link to the Banner article: http://www.benningtonbanner.com/stories/speaking-of-religion-relentless-redemption,534865? Is it Spring yet? Another storm, another snow day. Another several inches to...

God has a plan?

This is an article that I wrote for the “Speaking of Religion” column in the Bennington Banner. Here is a link to the Banner article: http://www.benningtonbanner.com/stories/speaking-of-religion-god-has-a-plan,532926? It’s happened again. Another day that...

It’s all about community

This is an article that I wrote for the “Speaking of Religion” column in the Bennington Banner. Here is a link to the Banner article: http://www.benningtonbanner.com/stories/speaking-of-religion-its-all-about-community,530491?Like many of us, I was moved on January...

Yeah, I know, we’ve always done it this way…

(Link to photo credit in the footnotes.)Yesterday I went to Bennington’s Martin Luther King, Jr., event. A couple dozen people gathered at the four corners and sang protest songs by candlelight, and then we processed down to Oldcastle Theater for a reception and to...

All of Jerusalem? All of us?

This isn’t a journal entry, not a typical one. It’s more of a… reflection, I guess is the right word. We’ve been doing a Bible study at the South Street Cafe (Wednesday evenings at 5:30, and all are welcome) for the past few weeks, and I’ve basically been basing in on...

Something missing this year…

This Christmas is incredibly strange for me.For the past ten years or more I’ve been a pastor during Christmas. Or at least an integral part of a church. When I first entered this process, back before I had taken my Local Pastor’s Licensing School, when I was still...