Lenten Devotional 2025

Finally, beloved, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. Keep on doing the things that you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, and the God of […]

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them.     Matthew 18: 20    In the middle of that first year of the pandemic a friend invited me to join a Fridays for Future standout in Wellesley which has just celebrated its 5th anniversary. Every Friday, from 3-4, we […]

About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was an earthquake, so violent that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were unfastened. –Acts 16:25-26 As we sing and pray, O God, […]

“Grad School & Godspell” by Laura Beck Two are better than one…if either of them falls down, one can help the other up. (Ecclesiastes 4:9) Have you ever been part of something that is so intense that the people going through the same thing with you bond quickly and deeply? That happened to me when […]

“Rejoice with those who rejoice…” Romans 13:15a   Today, we continue our Friday Lenten practice of an action to deepen our connections or widen our community. These are difficult times, when we are acutely aware of pain and injustice, when we struggle to find ways to be present to that pain and fight injustice. With all that is […]

 He stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, ‘I do choose. Be made clean!’ Immediately his leprosy was cleansed. –Matthew 8:3 May we use our hands in the service of healing, hope and love. Amen.

   And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds,  not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another-and all the more as you see the Day approaching.–Hebrews 10:24-25, NIV   I’d like to tell you a story about building […]

I, Paul, write this greeting in my own hand, which is the distinguishing mark in all my letters. This is how I write.–2 Thessalonians 3:17 In 2017 at some point I filled out a form asking about how I might volunteer for a climate organization I had followed for some time, 350 Massachusetts. I said […]

Therefore my heart is glad, and my soul rejoices–Psalm 16:9 Bless our hearts, O God–all of them. Amen. –Photo by Art Norton

Going Forth  For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters, only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence, but through love become enslaved to one another. For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Galatians 5:13-14 Communities can take many different forms, but are […]