Writings

Ordination is, or at the very least should be, a recognition of work already being done for a community. It is a recognition that your feet are already in the muck, your hands are already grasping the plow, and your heart is already broken to feed the hungry. Sermons or Homilies (or any other form of religious speech) are invitations to join in. The minister calls to their congregation not from a place of perfection or purity, but from one deeply invested in the suffering o

As a religious person committed to pluralism and democracy, I am required to search for what is true based on available, current, and historically reliable information and be prepared for answers that are often messy and difficult.