This will be my last Outlook article serving as your settled minister as I will retire at the end of June. And I hope this will not be the last time I’ll be writing for Windows.  It likely will be for a while until a new minister is settled and established in this congregation.  The ...

Vulnerability isn’t pleasant. But often the very behaviors anda thought patterns we develop to cope with it make it even more so. A favorite strategy that is easy to recognize is denial and suppression. Just don’t think about it. It will not affect me or my family. I’ll just ignore it until I can’t anymore. The ...

To resist is human nature. My spiritual practice when I experience inner resistance to pause and attend to it. How does my body experience that resistance? Is it a tightness of fear and a defensiveness? Is it hot and agitated wanting to objectify the other? Are shame and guilt operating in a way that closes my heart? The ...

Back in 2001, sociologist Paul H. Ray and psychologist Sherry Ruth Anderson wrote a book titled The Cultural Creatives: how 50 Million People are Changing the World.  They described a new class of people working in emerging creative fields who were also socially evolving along with their creative expression.  That trend continues to grow across ...