Melissa, the chair of our Blue Ribbon (Visioning) Committee is always using the phrase “Real Talk”. It’s kind of an “Amen”-like feedback phrase that rewards…
One of the worst moments in my life was the first time I suffered from short-term depression. Many of us know that the first time…
My dad turned 88 this year, and, as some of you have done, I have spent the last few years educating myself about nursing homes,…
I think it would be nice to start the day with a story. A love story. It begins once upon a time in the West…
As some of you know, one of my Lenten disciplines is to go to a Buddhist meditation group once a week. This week, after meditation,…
On Monday night, my husband played guitar for a worship service at a Presbyterian church that is especially affirming of the LGBT community. The service…
Sometimes I am confounded when visitors come to the church once or twice and then they disappear, only to reappear months later. I’m always surprised…
People are often really surprised to find out that I’m a pastor. Sometimes they ask me how old I am, and then their eyes get…
As some of you know, Church of the Village is vacating a building on St. Marks Place in the East Village so that a new…
