Clergy Harassing Clergy: Time to Listen Yet?

Workplace harassment is all over the news. A wide variety of workplaces have been exposed as former havens of violating personal space and suspending professional ethics. The church, of course, has its own harassment stories. Have we listened for them? As a mentor to clergy, and as the convener of the Ask the Matriarch feature for…

A Psalm in the Chaos

In the chaos of this time we threw up our hands and screamed we hid in the house and binged on mindless TV we went on with our lives with singular determination to work harder and avoid the coming catastrophe “Give us joy!” and “Give us faith!” they shouted Not our own authentic voice Not…

Sermon: The Soul Work of the Resistance Community

The Soul Work of the Resistance Community Isaiah 65:17-25; Luke 21:5-19 A sermon preached November 13, 2016 among Brookmeade Congregational UCC I would not be here today if not for a saint named Lydia Elizabeth Nash Greuling. She gave birth to my mother, so there’s that. I would not be here — in church — if…