June 19, 2020This Sunday is Father’s Day. It seems mundane and unimportant compared to the riots and protests against racism that are rocking the...
June 12, 2020Once when I was teaching school I sat with a group of students to discuss what rules should govern our school community. Eventually this...
June 5, 2020This week has been devastating, not only for those who have had their businesses destroyed, been injured, or even killed, but for all of...
May 29, 2020Thrust into these trying and difficult days of virus, racism and rioting, is Pentecost. It is that high, holy day when we are called to...
May 22, 2020For Native Americans in Montana, June is the month of wild roses. In Idaho, however, it seems to be May and this year these roses are...
May 15, 2020The weather has been beautiful so I have taken my canoe out on the river several times this spring. We are lucky to live where there is...
May 8, 2020“I will create. . .if not a masterpiece, a destruction, if not a symphony, a hole”. These words, as best I remember them, used to be on...
May 1, 2020I’m not that fond of sheep and I find it hard to wax lyrical about shepherds. You see I have some actual experience with both. I was a...
April 24, 2020I talked to Angela this week. (For those of you who don’t know, Angela and her husband, Rico, came to Grace a number of years ago when...
April 17, 2020"Peace be with you!" You are not alone. The Gospel reading on the Second Sunday of Easter is always the same, John 20:19-31. It...