First, walk gently.

You’re entering into the great mystery.

Jubilee Day Prayer, NAACP, Colorado Springs, Branch 4001. Roger Butts

God of many names,
God who looked upon the diversity of the world
from the very beginning
and called it good, very good,
and beautiful, very…

It was either 1999 or 2000. I could go back and figure it out, but that is not so important. I was at Wesley Theological Seminary, pursuing a Masters of Divinity on my way to being ordained as a Unitarian Universalist minister.

So when I was in seminary, in Washington, D.C., as I was finishing up seminary, I spent a year and a half as a Per Diem — as needed — chaplain at the University of Maryland Medical System in Baltimore, a big city, urban hospital, shock trauma center. It was a good job for someone who had not yet…

A poem/prayer for CPE Final Exam 2014

Light upon the Old North End,

its hospital,

its cottages and mansions,