About one month ago, we lost Marcus Borg. This is a significant loss for our community at The Church of the Village, A progressive United…
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This is one of several reflections about what I learned working and worshiping with people who are poor economically, during my years as Minister of…
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In this season of Epiphany, let us remember in a lasting way to be revelations, or epiphanies of God’s grace, to any who our churches have marginalized or considered less than, inherently “wrong,” or a “mistake.”
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Yesterday, I marched in my first ever PRIDE Parade. Until recently, I didn’t know that such a parade existed, and if I did, I probably…
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I grew up in Allentown, PA in a section of town called Midway Manor, which was a small, middle-class, lily-white community of red brick houses…
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One person I have come to know since living in NYC is an Egyptian-American businessman I met who had started coming to my concerts in…
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As a self-identified tree hugger, one of my favorite hymns is How Great Thou Art!: O Lord my God, When I in awesome wonder,…
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The Washington Square Church… the name still stirs in me a feeling of liberation, hope, radicalism and passion. Though I was never a member, several…
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I have been thinking a lot about ritual these days. It is a word that I have not thought about as much as related words like…
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