Reflecting on Leadership in Multicultural Faith Communities
A Peaceable Kingdom: Isaiah 11:6-9 (The Message)… The wolf will romp with the lamb,    the leopard sleep with the kid. Calf and lion will eat from the same trough,    and a little child will tend them. Cow and bear will graze the same pasture,    their calves and cubs grow up together,    and the lion eat straw like the ox. The nursing child will crawl [...]

We Are All Cup Bearers
Sermon preached the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost… click here to listen: We Are All Cup Bearers Each day more than 2 million passengers go through TSA security check points at US airports.  Since 2008 self-select lanes modeled after familiar ski icons guide travelers to choose the appropriate one based on their skill level.  Green designates the queue [...]

Walking a Winding Path – Labyrinth as Rest and Refuge
Sanctuary is defined both as a place of refuge and as holy ground.  One of my favorite places of refuge on the tree lined campus of the Lutheran Seminary at Philadelphia is the 101 year old Krauth Memorial Library.  There in the upper rotunda is an eleven circuit Chartres-style labyrinth, described as a winding path [...]

When Sudden Terror Tears Apart
The Episcopal priest and hymn writer the Rev. Carl P. Daw Jr.  provided this hymn of lament seeking comfort just days after the national tragedy of September 11th: When sudden terror tears apart the world we thought was ours, we find how fragile strength can be, how limited our powers. As tower and fortress fall, we watch with disbelieving [...]