Love One Another

Love one another By Pastor Steve This Sunday, all over the Christian world, congregations will hear a reading from the Gospel of John. It’s a confusing reading, taken on its own, about glorifying, and being glorified, about leaving, and seeking, and not finding. Yet...

Holy Week

My latest article from the Banner: https://www.benningtonbanner.com/stories/speaking-of-religion-holy-week,571014? I’m sitting down on Wednesday to write this, and I can’t help but be reminded of the essential strangeness of Holy Week. Sunday morning many...

Spring Promise

Here’s my latest article from the Banner. And here’s the Banner’s link: https://www.benningtonbanner.com/stories/speaking-of-religion-spring-promise,567718? This week marks the first day of spring. The season of renewal, when our world awakens from a...

Signs of Spring

My latest article for the Bennington Banner. Here’s the Banner’s link: https://www.benningtonbanner.com/stories/speaking-of-religion-signs-of-spring,565048? Groundhogs lie. Birds get faked out by the occasional warm day when the snows melt and we hear...

Living With Uncertainty

Here’s my most recent post to the Bennington Banner. Here’s the Banner’s link: https://www.benningtonbanner.com/stories/speaking-of-religion-living-with-uncertainty,562074? I’m not a fan of uncertainty. I mean, I am REALLY not a fan of...