JUST ADD SPICE

Cooking is always about imagination and possibility. It’s about what these things can become together and I don’t think using words to attempt to approach God is any different. 

We need each other to find inspiration. We share recipes and try new things. We wonder about what else could work even when don’t feel the least bit creative. 

These pages are all about helping each other to cook up some good trouble.  If you don’t find what you’re searching for above, please drop me a line to see if we can stir up some goodness together.

WELCOME TO MY KITCHEN

There are stacks of cookbooks in my actual kitchen and probably a sink full of dirty dishes leftover from another delicious feast but my virtual kitchen is full of liturgies and resources to pepper the worship experience in your congregation with love and hope. Find something new over in my kitchen.

COME ON IN

“Cooking [up good worship] is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” 

— Harriet Van Horn (adapted)

  • Prayer Power

    I just started reading The Odd and Wondrous Calling. This morning, before I prayed, I read Martin Copenhaver’s insights on his seminary prayer group — and I admit I got a little teary and a little jealous. I couldn’t quite… Continue reading

  • Trinity Sunday

    Trinity by revelsaapeters Jan Richardson has a way with her words. She also has a way with images and her words particularly caught my attention in wondering what it means to try to explain the Trinity.  In 2008, she pondered… Continue reading

  • More Than Words

    Yesterday, as I was driving home from vacation, I drove past a similar hotel welcome sign. It was the same chain but the text only announced: We Love Having You With Us. It caught my attention while I was driving.… Continue reading

  • Ontological

    In today’s New York Times, David Brooks gave words to something I’ve been struggling with lately. In his own words, it’s not about you.   It’s the concept I’ve been pondering as I just finished reading John McKnight and Peter Block’s… Continue reading

  • The Call to Justice

    Last night, I got a text message from a friend at the Human Rights Campaign Clergy Call. You may have heard me rave about her before. She is truly fantastic.  The text message told me simply that this gathering of clergy trying to… Continue reading

  • Poured Out for You

    I will never forget bumping into my New Testament Professor on a train to Philadelphia. He lives there. It made sense for him to be on that train at rush hour. I wasn’t where I should be and it was… Continue reading

  • Praying for Peace

    I’ll never forget where I was on the evening that Osama bin Laden was captured and killed. On that night, I was crawling into bed before a  week-long workshop in conflict mediation. I would begin this training early the next… Continue reading

  • Practice Resurrection

    I love this poem by Wendell Berry. I love that last line that reminds me that Easter is not a day or a moment but something we choose to do again and again. Easter is something that we practice after… Continue reading

  • Good Friday Again

    I’ve heard it said by people I respect and adore that we can’t have Easter without Good Friday. It’s the same logic that we only know what is truly good by knowing its opposite. We are able to understand the… Continue reading

  • Holy Thursday Feet

    In our weekly study of sacred text this week, we got to talking about feet.  In the Gospel of Matthew, the women meet the Risen Christ and instantly take hold of his feet.  This seems like a strange thing to… Continue reading

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