Pastoral Ponderings on Periwinkle Way

Ever since July of 2010 I have been making posts on this blog.  Almost  six hundred since then.  Usually once a week.   Prompted initially ...

This coming Good Friday my congregation will be presenting a dramatization of Leonardo DaVinci’s famous painting, of the Last Supper. It is...

Three weeks from today I will be able to sleep in if I so choose.  I will be retired.  (My last Sunday here at Sanibel Congregational UCC wi...

I am convinced we are a nation of worry warts.  Everywhere you turn somebody is worried about something.  We are so stressed out by our anxi...

This past week the Florida Legislature passed the Parental Rights in Education Bill.  Often referred to as the Don't Say Gay Bill, it is...

  One of the most concerning aspects of the war in Ukraine has been the assault on nuclear power plants by the Russian military.  Memories o...

  So this is Lent.   It always seems a little odd here on Sanibel.   Growing up—and indeed for most of my adulthood--Lent began in the midst...