How Can I Keep from Singing?
Bruce Epperly
September 22, 2025
When we sing, we pray twice, St. Augustine counsels. What song sustains and empowers you in these difficult and challenging times?
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Bruce Epperly
Rev. Dr. Bruce G. Epperly has served as a congregational pastor, university chaplain, professor, and seminary administrator for over forty years. He is currently Senior Pastor of South Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, Centerville, Massachusetts. He is the author of more than fifty books on practical theology, ministry, and spirituality, healing and wholeness, and process theology, including Walking with Francis of Assisi: From Privilege to Activism, The Mystic in You: Discovering a God-filled World, the award-winning Tending to the Holy: The Practice of the Presence of God in Ministry, and Mystics in Action: Twelve Saints for Today. He lives on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, with his wife Rev. Dr. Katherine Gould Epperly, his son, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren.
Your Faith Has Made You Well
Bruce Epperly
August 12, 2025
Physicians and medical scientists speak about the “faith factor” in health or illness. When we trust God, our inner resources are enlivened and change our lives.
Letting Go of the Past
Bruce Epperly
July 5, 2025
As you look at your emotional life, what grievances are you holding onto? Where is unforgiveness limiting you? God invites you—prayerfully and faithfully—to let go of the past.
Pray and Protest
Bruce Epperly
June 29, 2025
Regardless of our political perspective, we recognize that we are in a troubled time in which we cannot sit on the sidelines and trust our future and the future of the planet solely to our political leaders.
Pick Up Your Mat and Walk
Bruce Epperly
June 10, 2025
Jesus challenged the man with paralysis with the words, “Pick up your mat and walk” (Jn 5:1–8). To have abundant life, he needed to act.
I Can Pray
Bruce Epperly
May 31, 2025
When she could no longer protest injustice, Dorothy Day asserted that “I can still pray.” We can always do something to change the world.
Do You Want to Be Healed?
Bruce Epperly
May 18, 2025
Jesus asked a man with paralysis, “Do you want to be healed?” (Jn 5:1–8) Jesus asks the same question of us in our personal and public lives.