Pastor Phil's Thoughts for the Day

You may have heard that a Roman Catholic bishop in San Francisco has announced that Nancy Pelosi has been banned from communion for her advocacy for the legality of abortion. First of all, you should know that not all Christians are against pro-choice policy as this bishop is. This is a complex moral issue and […]

Pastor Phil's Thoughts for the Day

This Sunday our sanctuary was full and as a pastor looking out on the people, so was my heart. What really filled me with joy was putting that experience together with a basic theological commitment I can easily forget. The church is not building it is the people. Having people of all ages in our […]

Pastor Phil's Thoughts for the Day

Sigh! Are we finally able to come together as a community and share physical space more intimately than we have in the past two years? I’m feeling things move in this direction. Let’s sigh together collectively. (Wait, can we breath like that in each other’s presence? So much relearning to do!) My wife and I […]

Pastor Phil's Thoughts for the Day

Ash Wednesday is such a complex ritual. One can interpret the dust in many ways. We trace the ashen cross on our foreheads to remember our mortality. At grave side after grave side we have remembered: We are dust and to dust we shall return. Or perhaps we think not of mortality, but morality, not […]

Pastor Phil's Thoughts for the Day

One thing I have come to understand as we pass through the pandemic is that the absence of time together robs our relationships of depth. I am so glad that we have ways of reaching each other digitally when we cannot be physically in the same space. I have heard God’s voice coming through my […]