Comfort, Hope, and the Five Little Peppers
After my sister and I cleared out my mother’s house before its sale, I came home with some childhood books that I wanted to keep, and stuck them on a…
Kinship, and other important ideas
Photo: Hollis Walker Last Sunday I had the opportunity to take the pulpit at First Unitarian Church of Albuquerque, and once again, I talked about homelessness. After I was invited…
Remembering Danny
Photo: Hollis Walker The man at the left—Danny Jones—was too shy to let me photograph him for a slide show I did earlier this year about Pete’s Place, the…
How To Practice Sacred Listening with the Sick or Dying
These “Don’ts” and “Do’s” aren’t hard-and-fast rules, but guidelines to help you think about how using language thoughtfully can best help a patient (if you are a health care professional)…
The Art of Sacred Listening
To see a video of the service including this sermon, click on this link: “The Art of Sacred Listening” I’ve spent most of my professional life working as a writer,…
Say “I Love You”
Photo: Hollis Walker It started soon after I began my residency as a hospital chaplain. The first one was a 80-ish woman patient, just someone I was visiting on my…
The Multi-Player Virtual Reality Analogy
I was at the farmer’s market in Berkeley one day a few years ago when I saw an odd-looking man working the crowd, passing out some kind of brochure. He…