WildWood Gathering

This week's reflection was done as a group. I provided some insight and then together we discussed and explored the text. I invite you to...

**The website host has removed the option to upload audio...I'm very annoyed. So while I' try to find a work around here is the text of m...

WildWood Gathering has been queering church since 2016! Join us as we march in the Olympia Pride Parade on June 17, we'll gather at the C...

I'm trying something new. I'm a little nervous about it, but I've started recording my reflections or sermons each week. It seemed import...

This is a two-part sermon told in sacred story and reflection. I've included selected text of the Common English translation. Mark 14:43-...

There were two very different kinds of processions in the city that week, one right after the other. One involved pom and circumstance, m...

Have you ever stood outside in a field or in the forest and felt the breeze dance around you, rustling leaves and your hair? Have you eve...

“I have come into the world to exercise judgment so that those who don’t see can see and those who see will become blind.” - John 9:39 Th...

In the church cycles and seasons the color red symbolizes the presence of the Holy Spirit. Representative of tongues of fire, the season ...

We remember that life is begotten from stardust, radiant in light and heat. We are all one - all of creation, all that now live, all that...

A century and a half ago, as he led the faith-rooted struggle against slavery in America, Frederick Douglass wrote, "Between the Christia...

There are some theological concepts that I shy away from because I’m not sure what I believe about them myself. I don’t always feel confi...

We’ve spent the first weeks of Advent in the first testament of the bible looking at the prophetic words, the visions told by Isaiah that...

In the winter I am writing about, there is much darkness. Darkness of nature, darkness of event, darkness of the spirit. The sprawling da...

I’m angry friends. I’m heartbroken and angry. I am not ready to “get to work”. I am not ready to “dust myself off”. I am not ready to emb...

This week has felt dark. This past week before the time changed felt so dark. The days and days of rain certainty aren’t helping, it was ...

When I was young in the late 1990’s among my rather conservative christian friends WWJD, what would Jesus do, became a popular motto. The...

As a part of Bethany Theological Seminaries fall preaching series, I was asked to share about WildWood Gathering and where we see the bel...

In July I spent five days in the sticky-humid mountains of North Carolina attending Wild Goose Festival, a spirituality, faith and social...

Each August my family and I head up to Mt. Rainier to see the Perseid meteor shower. This year it's supposed to be extra spectacular and ...