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It looks like I’m going to make it to my seventieth birthday—if I can dodge bullets, asteroids, car accidents, heart attacks, explosions, and falling off the Sears Building—for just six more days.  Just to be sure I make it, I’m also … Continue reading →

60–The Sermon Urbana Grace UMC, July 13, 2014 Sometime while sleeping last night, I completed my sixtieth loop around the sun. Being sixty is simply a matter of going in circles: big circles…60 of them. Like everyone else, I’ve been … Continue reading →

There were these two sisters.  One was heavy with anxiety.  But the other used wisdom to make her worries bearable.  The afflicted one was named Martha; the more liberated named Mary.   Poor Martha.  I’ve known her in a thousand parishioners during my ministry.  In the … Continue reading →

My first visit to Utah was in 1994, on a family trip to California when Mindy and Alison were 12 and 10. Driving west from Illinois—through Colorado, across the Rockies, and into Utah—it seemed the strangest place I’d ever set … Continue reading →

Richard Rohr, Falling Upward:  A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life Kimble, et al, Aging, Spirituality, and Religion:  A Handbook  (2 Volumes) Koenig, Harold G. and Weaver, Andrew J., Counseling Troubled Older Adults:  A Handbook for Pastors and Religious Caregivers Koenig, Harold … Continue reading →