Feb 19, 2017 | Blog
“There is no less holiness at this time– as you are reading this– than there was on the day the Red Sea parted.”- Annie DillardFeb 15, 2017 | Blog
I knew a family who came to Haines from down south– real south, I think it was Missouri, or maybe Arkansas– who celebrated Valentine’s Day with a Valentine Tree. The branches were bare and draped in twinkling white lights and hung with paper hearts....Feb 12, 2017 | Blog
Brian Doyle, whose work I’m a big fan of, wrote about meeting Bishop Desmond Tutu in Portland back in 2015, and shared this impromptu riff Tutu gave on faith, “The world will say you are silly! Be proud of that!” Doyle said he didn’t write...Feb 9, 2017 | Blog
Since you’ve asked what my schedule is: I will be giving a reading and answering questions (weather permitting as I’m flying from Haines) tomorrow, Friday Feb. 10 at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center in Juneau at 6:30 and again at 8:00. There’s...Feb 8, 2017 | Blog
My friend Teresa calls Haines “spiritual boot camp,” because it can be so challenging to love our neighbors as ourselves, especially after meetings like the one last night, where many angry people, who had been misinformed and riled up all day, apparently...Feb 5, 2017 | Blog
“Being civil isn’t just trying to be respectful toward the people we know. It is also to care about our common life…there’s something that binds human beings together that politics can’t create and it shouldn’t be able to destroy. What we really need to be...
