Origins of Rap In the summer 1977, New York City experienced economic stagnation and soaring unemployment. It was a summer known for its heat, but New York also experienced a black out. Successive lightning strikes in the area overburdened the power grid and sent the city into the pitch black....
So far in this series, we have been exploring creativity and the divine. We have opened this series by looking at the trinity. Two weeks ago we explored the creativity of the Creator – or Father- or the head of the trinity, and how that creator is still at work...
We start at the Beginning Today we start at the beginning. Yes its the first Sunday of our Summer series on Creativity. But I am talking about the very beginning. To explore creativity, we need to explore it from its origins. Creativity starts at the dawn of… creation. We live...
Dearly Beloved, We are gathered here today. The stereotypical words at the beginning of a wedding. “We” are gathered – the object of something or someone’s gathering. Gathered like the strawberries at Suters, or like the people in the long lines waiting to get them. Gathered Like flowers cut from...
If I fall asleep in the sermon today, it is because of how jealous Chaska and I were of everyone who got those beautiful views of the northern light on Friday, so we sat outside till midnight last night trying to pray the findlay light pollution into northern lights because...
Beauty of Love All you need is love. Love Love Love. Everyone is singing about it. We all desperately need it. In the 1950 John Bowby started writing about “Attachment Theory.” This Evolutionary theory suggests that in order for humans and other animals to survive, they need to create secure...
This Jesus is ‘the stone that was rejected by you, the builders; it has become the cornerstone.” Basement Cracks This past week a sermon illustration fell into my lap that I would have preferred to have not had to deal with, but since it happened, I might as well ring...
Hands Poem Hands – Hands meeting in high five A Hand shaking another hand to finalize an agreement. My grandma’s hands snipping green beans, stitching or quilting My daughters hands learning to wave goodbye Mark’s hand waving the baton The hands of the pianist tickling the keys Hand furiously writing...
This past week, I placed my maple seeds that I showed you two weeks ago into some potting soil and they have now sprouted 6 inches. It is very exciting! I will be able to have some sugar maples in the backyard. The tree that I collected these seeds from...
Composting is the process of recycling organic matter. Leaves. Grass clippings. Scraps of food. Things that were once full of life and are in the process of breaking down and dying. To compost efficiently and effectively, there is a bit of an art to it. While one can just throw...
