The Epiphany Explorations conference is now officially less than a week away! I'm wondering who will be attending (either online or in person) and who you are excited to hear speak? I'm most looking forward to hearing from Phyllis Tickle, Michael Dowd, Brent Hawkes, Gary Paterson and Bob McDonald. I'm also, of course, looking forward to hearing Linnea Good sing.

Is it a coincindence that Epiphany and Christmas Eve as celebrated by some cultures fall at the same time, or is there a deeper connection between the two?

Hope was born in a stable, and those the world had judged wise came to see. After witnessing this fragile new hope, the Magi “went home by a different way.” They were not the same.

My thoughts this Epiphany are filled with both the fragile new hope that I saw born at the UN climate change talks in Durban, and the bitter disappointment that calls us to go home by a new and different way.

 "Learning to let the light of Christ

shine in your life"

Epiphany Sunday, Jan 9 2011.

So you’ve resolved to go on a diet. After a year of church dinners, I’m with you! But have you considered putting your church on a diet—an energy diet? You’ll be in good company if you do.