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a nearly completed Leap by Wayne Stratz “When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my visi...

Psalm 139 begins with a description of a God, who is very difficult to escape. Tracking our location, movements, thoughts, and words which ...

Sunday morning Mother Amanda offered me the chance to feed her spirit. It was just the two of us at the Rite 1 service and after she offer...

I am The Living Water Banner Holy Trinity Lansdale It has been 17 years or so since I returned to church. I still have my doubts, but I...

  I had posted a link to my acceptance that jazz in my church would be a j ourney that could not be predicted . One friend thought...

  One of the seven desires I carried with me from my week of silence this summer is jazz in my church. It may have been born the night...

The conversation this past Sunday began like this... Me ~> peace Lay preacher friend ~> what would we do without Buechner? How w...

I have had some great conversations in 2013, and maybe some others will pop up during this Christmas shout out series. This morning as I ...

Cleared off the top of my stereo so I could play an LP or two. Monk's Music was released by Riverside Records in 1957. It was one of t...

Irises in my yard delight my eye. For most of 2012 I was celebrating mystics on Mondays. Inspired by a gift from a friend, Mosaic Wom...

art by Anne-Lise Hammann For weeks I wondered, do I want to do my usual thing ~ linger after work then head off to Owen J Roberts Hi...

Our church finally stumbled upon a new rector ,  she is wonderful. I greeted her with this card. I began what will hopefully be more ...

I was sitting and waiting to celebrate our new priest, Mother Amanda, when the young man in the striped shirt (far left) asked me if I ...

Our Wednesday nights of pie have continued as the seasons change here in PA.  But we are missing one member as the daughter of Red and ...

Jesus said,  "I am the bread of life;  whoever comes to me shall not hunger,  and whoever believes in me shall never thi...

an amazing commission by Wayne Stratz I started... THE HOPE OF LOVING by: Meister Eckhart 
Transl. Daniel Ladinksky ...

Hope in the Dessert by Margaret Almon and Wayne Stratz I am grateful to my friend Michelle for getting me to think about prayerful play ...

Once again, well for the second time, I have been asked to give a sermon at my church. And while I am not opposed to Jesus being the b...

LP cover to Mary Lou Williams; Mary Lou's Mass in Black and white On Sunday mornings Mosaic Woman and I enjoy listening to NPR...