U2 has dropped another great (IMHO) EP. The last was on Ash Wednesday and called, reasonably enough, “Days of Ash.” That EP is a powerful set of songs offering a critique of the news of today. Today, on Good Friday, they drop “Easter Lily.” With songs titles like “Scars,” “Resurrection […]
Yearly Archives: 2026
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In late October 2016, I went to Nashville to become interim rector of St. B’s Episcopal Church. The first Sunday I served was All Souls Day and I chose to include in my sermon a reference to a song I had recently heard called, The Ghost of Johnny Cash. It […]
Last year I wrote a short little poem on Mack’s birthday. I shared it with my friend and award winning poet John Poch, now at Grace College in Indiana. (His latest book The Future of Love is out now and it is tremendous!) He replied with the suggestion that I […]
A sermon for Transfiguration Sunday 2026, leading us into Lent. Preached at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Springfield, Ohio. A lot happens on mountain tops in the Bible. We read time and again of figures who go, or often are sent, “up a high mountain.” It is on a mountain that […]