At the invitation of a late November wind, all the red and yellow and brown and orange leaves leap up from their passive acceptance of anticipated decay and instead fly tumbling point over point in great rivers of confetti color down the street as if to say "hurray, hurray, we're off to join the circus! See, already we are dressed to run away! So long tree, so long lawn, good by now away we fly on a journey we didn't expect to see!" Watching the flow of liberation, I thought, "Well, surprising things can happen once we let go." - Facebook Status posting 11/30/11

Magazine Feature Articles

• "Learning from the Land" Presbyterians Today December, 2011 - PDF version
  •  Young adutls are finding that caring for creation can be a gateway to encounters with God
• "To Every Season"  Horizons Magazine November/December, 2011  - PDF version
  • Frowing older brings new opportunities, choices
• "To Be Restored" Horizons Magazine December, 2010
  • Connecting Jesus' heaing of Simon Peter's Mother-in-law and my own mother's illness
  "The Calvary Connection" The Chimes Spring 2010
  • San Francisco Church Provides Leadership, Support for SFTS
  "Hope for the Homeless" Presbyterians Today December 2009
  • A San Francisco Congregation succeeds in getting people off the streets and into the church
• "Turning Over More Than Dirt: Gardening for the Future" Horizons Magazine November/December 2008
  • A look at youth gardening programs in urban areas
• "Taking Care of Business,"Presbyterians Today June/July 2008
  • How Tom Mears, CEO of Burgerville, offers health care to employees, uses oganic and locally sourced food, and incorporates sustainable energy practices

• "D.Min Emphasis Equips Grads for Pastoral Care & Counseling," Spring 2008 Chimes
  • Overview of Pasoral Care D. Min program at San Francisco Theological Seminary
• "Feminist Theology Empowering, Challenging for SFTS Alumnae," Winter 2008 Chimes
  • Overview of how newly and recently ordained women in ministry are reconciling the reality of their call with their theology.
• "Keeping Time," Horizons Magazine, - PDF version
  • How making slow foods like sausage, beer, and cheese can be a form of sabboth keeping and a way of reclaiming the quality of our lives.
• "Death with Dignity," Horizons March/April 2007
  • A pastoral consideraton regarding the Oregon option to end one's life at one's own timing in the face of a terminal disease.
• "Of the People, For the People," Horizons, November/December 2006
  • Suggestions on how to effectively participate in the local public policy process.

Presbyterian News Service

• Water water Everywhere - Presbyterian deacon dowses for water in montana, elsewhere 9/15/11
• Presbyterian Competes in National Wedding Dress Design Competition - pastor parents helped her incorporate symbols of marriage 7/22/11
• We are Presbyterians - online video series showcases voices from across PC(USA) 6/30/11
• Making room for the little shots - online conference gives everyone a chance to discuss PC(USA)'s future 6/1/11
• A Presbyterian Church Finds a Place to Call Home - Walton grant helps California congregation settle after nomadic decade 5/18/11
  
• Synod PJC Upholds Spahr’s Conviction on Same-Sex Wedding Charge - court says guidelines are needed where same-sex marriage is legal 3/31/11
  
• A Congregational Coffee Shop - Oregon church provides relaxed space for community 3/9/11
• SFTS Closes Southern California Campus - Trustees cite budget woes; 21-year-old program to end in June 2/10/11
• Lisa Larges Moves Closer to Ordination - By 5-4 vote, synod PJC upholds San Francisco presbytery’s decision to allow ‘scruple’ to ‘fidelity and chastity’ standard 9/29/10
• Spahr Found Guilty on same-gender marriage charges - Journey of reconciliation’ needed as state, church law diverge, court says 8/30/10
  
• Hungry to Make a Differnce - San Francisco church's 'Welcome Ministry' transforms lives, members 8/26/09

Blogs

• Food and Faith - http://presbyterian.typepad.com/foodandfaith
  • Of Seasons, Tomatoes and other Sings of Life
  • Of Summer Pulpit Supply
  • Encounters
  • Community Carrots
  • Tilling & Keeping
  • Everybody Look What's Going Down
  • A Decent and in Order Pantry
  • Talking 'Bout Serious Change
  • Choices
  • Making Bacon
  • Are You a Gardener?
  • A Journey Beyond the Horizon
  • How Much is Enough?
  • Luke, Jesus, and Dinner

Book Reviews

• Presbyterians Today
  • 12 reviews, 2007 to present
• Christian Century
  • 1 review, July, 2008

Poetry

• "Mother and Child" - Alive Now, November/December 2003