Jo PageSep 18, 20177 minTag. You're It!I am writing this on a Saturday night, midway through the tag sale that I hope will culminate on Sunday in a mad rush with people buying ...
Jo PageSep 2, 20175 minNix on the Nashville Statement“For those who want to save their life will lose it…..” These are notorious words of Jesus from Matthew’s gospel. They have, for centurie...
Jo PageAug 29, 20172 minGoing to Meet the ManJames Baldwin's short story, "Going to Meet the Man" may be the one story we need to read in these times. Masterfully, but agonizingly wr...
Jo PageAug 14, 20177 minCharlottesville. Sermon, 8.13.17.Let me begin by saying that, on Monday afternoon, when I read the lessons for this Sunday morning, I was excited. Once in a very, very bl...
Jo PageJul 27, 20173 minSkin in the Game: Eyes Without a FaceThere is a pun here somewhere: I can’t seem to figure out how to wrap my mind around the movie “Eyes Without a Face.” A classic 1960 horr...
Jo PageJul 13, 20173 minPilgrim in DogtownSmack dab in the center of Cape Ann--Massachusetts’ “other cape”--is Dogtown Commons, over 3000 acres of storied wilderness full of glaci...
Jo PageJun 15, 20174 minAwash in PuddlesThe rain is raining all around. It falls on field and tree. It rains on the umbrellas here And on the ships at sea. --Robert Louis Steven...
Jo PageJun 2, 20174 minEnchantment, Evil--and Innocent ChildrenI am always both haunted and horrified by Schubert's setting of the Goethe poem, "Die Erlkonig." If you don't know it, it's more than wor...
Jo PageApr 13, 20173 minYou Can Dance if You Want ToThis is a posting about dancing. But first: In Nautilus magazine, journalist Daniel Gross writes about a “silent disco” party at South St...
Jo PageMar 18, 20173 minSee Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Heal MeOkay, so this morning I was filling in at a colleague's church and it was time for the Children's Time/Sermon/Moment--it's called somethi...
Jo PageFeb 9, 20173 minTestosterone and MemoirBy some strange coincidence, I find myself reading three very different memoirs by three very different white men. I’ve just finished J.D...
Jo PageJan 26, 20173 minKitchen AidWatch carefully because I’m about accomplish this fancy, journalistic sleight of hand in which I start this post in a curmudgeonly vein a...
Jo PageJan 12, 20174 minAbout Suffering They Were Never Wrong, the Old MastersIn Greek mythology, Daedalus was the great craftsman, capable creating anything—which would make him a good web designer! He is credited w...
Jo PageOct 21, 20163 min"In a Dark Time, the Eye Begins to See"I’ve always been drawn to the poet Theodore Roethke’s line, “In a dark time, the eye begins to see.” It’s the first line of an eponymous ...
Jo PageSep 14, 20163 minLove's Labors Not LostLabor Day picnic, three years ago: by the time we got to the lime sugar cookies and the last of the strawberry-basil cocktails at the end...
Jo PageAug 18, 20163 minGive Us Pleasure in the Flowers TodayOh, give us pleasure in the flowers today; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the ...
Jo PageJul 5, 20163 minDeclaring Interdependence on the FourthThese are stirring and familiar words from The Declaration of Independence: Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just pow...
Jo PageMar 23, 20163 minHealing the WorldMy religious observances run the usual Judeo-Christian gamut with the occasional Hindu celebration thrown in (you know how we do, dear Ga...
Jo PageFeb 22, 20163 minFear Wastes AirIt turns out that I like the poem whose last line is “Fear wastes air.” But that’s only because I sat with the poem for a long time and h...
Jo PageJan 17, 20161 minAnd, Yes, The Dress Still Fits (Sort of)It's coming out in March and I couldn't be happier about it. Here's what SUNY Press has to say about PREACHING IN MY YES DRESS: "A Luther...
