Departure, Return I wanted to buy my husband a Mezuzah for our fortieth wedding anniversary. We had left more under used Mezuzahs on more houses and apartments than anyone else I knew. It was time for self-improvement of a spiritual nature. I wanted it to be expensive. I wanted to…

She is an irregular Baptist and United Church of Christ preacher, ordained 49 years, becoming more irreverent as the years become decades. She mixes Dolly Parton’s humor with the Dalai Lama’s laugh. She foolishly offers spiritual advice and tries to focus on all the things you’re not supposed to talk about like sex, money and politics. The opinions expressed here belong to no one but her. #1 Dear Dolly,

Beyond Blame: An Essay/Prayer for Alec Baldwin On August 8, 2021, Actor Alec Baldwin came to the lawn of our church in Orient, New York. He held an inaugural conversation in our series called Spirituality in light of…..His topic was Spirituality in the light of Covid. Alec hit a kind…

How I changed my Walking Habit I took one sabbatical and walked parts of the Appalachian trail, another shorter one on the Via de Santiago de Compostela. I had a habit as a walker, a passeante, a flaneur. 100 blocks up Broadway was my ritual for decision making. I got…

A good funeral balances grief and gladness. We have grief, that the person is gone and gladness that the person was here. Half of the memorial time should be sobbing; the other half laughing. Or at least tearing up and also smiling. Why not school all speakers in the 50/50…

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In Appreciation of The Funnel One almost unmentionable item in the current pandemic is the kind of equipment we need, as women, when out and about for a few hours. We may be willing to use the bathrooms at the gas stations and we may not. We know that Starbucks…