Change must I
Like a poorly working neon light that flickers sporadically off, then on, while rain beads on the window pane, the awareness flashes across my consciousness then fades. Things must change. Change must...
View ArticleSmoke stack
Soot-stained it stands; once busily belching smoke over a bustling plant; now a solitary, silent witness to the days when sugar was king. 14 May 2015 Maui, Hawai’i
View ArticleAll created in God’s image
There is no crying in baseball. Everyone who has viewed A League of Their Own knows that. There should also be no racism in baseball. Or at least as little racism as possible. And there certainly...
View ArticleA moment comes
A moment comes in the journey of every hobbit, perhaps as the hobbit goes there or maybe on the way back again when the journey reaches a critical moment and the hobbit encounters a choice of where to...
View ArticleLent 2017, day 24
“By faith we connect the action of restoration to God’s work through Jesus. By experience, we note that one cannot restore a right relationship that never existed (that is many experiences of women,...
View ArticleFarewell to the Matrix
Transition is the nature of life. For individuals, families, communities, nations, the world, change happens. Our family is no different. We have passed through many changes through the years. This...
View ArticleAgain
Once I read, once I wrote. Once I sang, once I played. Once … … perhaps again. 5 June 2019 Manhattan, New York
View ArticleMarch 20 trip to the Bahama Deli
Walking well more than six feet away from any other human, which was easy since no other human appeared in view, I stopped at the light on the corner of Amsterdam and La Salle. I lifted my eyes to the...
View ArticleWe Are the Church
I Corinthians 12:12-27 First Presbyterian Church of Whitestone 22 March 2018 The Rev. W. Mark Koenig We’ve never done it that way before. We’ve never done it that way before. A minister comes to a new...
View ArticleA prayer for Noble Road Presbyterian Church
Tricia and I served as co-pastors of Noble Road Presbyterian Church in Cleveland Heights, Ohio from September 1985 through September 2000. There Eric was baptized, Sean and Eric joined the church,...
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