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Disability and Grace
Ten years ago tomorrow I went over the handlebars of my bicycle and landed on my head. I have written about that day elsewhere. Since that time I have been grappling daily with being brain injured....
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“Taking the Long View” Reflections of a Retired Pastor
(This is a talk I gave to “The Saints” which is the United Church of Christ retired clergy group in the Connecticut Conference of the UCC. The talk was in Cromwell, CT on May 14, 2015) I’d like to...
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“Holy Weeping” A Devotion for Lent
“Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.”—Romans 12:15 One of the stranger symptoms resulting from the traumatic brain injury I got 17 years ago is my tendency to cry at odd times,...
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“Unexpected Miracles” A Sermon on Isaiah 43: 16-21
Last spring, when your pastors Bruce and Barb invited me to come be with you I didn’t realize that I would be with you on a momentous day. For today is the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that ended...
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My Blog is Ten Years’ Old: A Retrospective
In the Beginning: 2009-2010 I’d like to thank all of you who have dropped by this blog over the years. It is hard for me to believe a decade has passed since I began it. I started to write again as a...
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“Rich Toward God” A Stewardship Sermon on Luke 12:13-21
Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me.” But he said to him, “Friend, who set me to be a judge or arbitrator over you?” And he said to...
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“Imagining our New Normal?”
“Behold I make all things new!” – Revelation 21:5 Twenty years ago my life changed forever in an instant when I flew over the handlebars of my bicycle and landed on my head. Like Humpty Dumpty I...
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“It was twenty years ago today” My Life with Traumatic Brain Injury
Ride leader. BCA Wednesday Ride On August 5, 2000 I set off to ride the Greylock Century Ride, a grueling 100 mile ride through the Berkshire Hills of Western Massachusetts. I had already gone up and...
View ArticleForty-five years in Ministry and I’m Finally a Televangelist! My YouTube Debut.
I filled in to lead worship for my pastor daughter today. Her amazing worship team put together an engaging and inspirational multi-media worship experience unlike any I have ever been a part of. It’s...
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A Reflection on Forty-Five Years of Ordained Ministry
On this day forty-five years ago, September 21, 1975, I was ordained into the Christian Ministry of Word and Sacrament at the Newton Highlands Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, in Newton...
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