Good news: You can truly have a happy new year. Bad news: What you must embrace to have one.

What do you wish for in the coming New Year?

The story of Christmas is not just about the wonder of a holy birth with a guiding star and singing angels. It is also about the unpredictable 100 miles journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem and what it represents in our own sacred journey.

Just how moral is Santa's list of good and bad children? Oh, and some thoughts on the difficulty of being good.

Just how does one make that pilgrimage?

Some thoughts about the enigma of the vanishing species, the leap from beast to Homo sapiens, and 21st century civility.

A Thanksgiving sermon on gratitude in a world where things go wrong.

It is such a struggle. First, moving beyond “me first.” Second, moving beyond “tribe first.” Is it possible to close the gap between us and them for the common good?

Daylight savings time arrived last Sunday. We want to stay in the light but there are certain things we can only learn by passing through the shadow to the other side, where things Rev. Burton D. Carley go bump in the night.

In a world filled with terror and violence what difference do we make?