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“The Mountains Shall Bring Peace to the People” If you never had the chance to go to summer camp as a kid, you missed a lot: s’mores, songs around the campfire, making new friends, and just letting go and having a raucous good time. If you’ve never been to a church retreat at a U.C.C. [...]

True Transformation Now that Easter is behind us, it’s tempting to turn our focus away from the drama of Holy Week and Christ’s resurrection Easter Sunday to what we will do over the summer.  Not so fast.  

DEALING WITH “ISSUES” Back in Gig Harbor, Washington, Master Ludke often warned our Tae Kwon Do class to shape up or we would have “issues.”  Nobody wanted “issues” with Master Ludke so discipline and order were quickly reestablished.  Things are simpler in the martial arts than they are in the church, as the church frowns [...]

Why is it that we need a national holiday to take time to give thanks?  If we’re lucky, we spend the better part of an afternoon and evening with loved ones “giving thanks.”  Typically, this means that the cooks are locked away in the kitchen while everyone else either watches football, pretends to be interested [...]

Turning off Pacific Coast Highway onto Cleo Street, drivers pass an easy-to-miss, faded sign that proudly points the way to a magnificent church whose congregation originally met upstairs above the Sandpiper bar.  Although Neighborhood Congregational Church has always been staunchly Congregational (and United Church of Christ), it has that ineffable quality of being a community church—a [...]

Much has been written about Judge Walker’s decision to overturn Proposition 8, the California Constitutional Amendment declaring marriage to be between one man and one woman. Although the California Supreme Court declined to invalidate Proposition 8, Judge Walker ruled that Proposition 8 violates the equal protection and due process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment of [...]