Moments of Silence
Bruce Epperly
June 18, 2024
Life is social but we also need to get away. We need moments each day to pause and be still so that we can hear God’s voice amid the chaos and complexity of our lives.
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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.
Why Bonaventure is a Theologian for Our Time
Bruce Epperly
May 20, 2024
Rev. Dr. Bruce G. Epperly served as a congregational pastor, university chaplain, professor, and seminary administrator for over forty years. He is the author of
It Will Be Solved in the Walking
Bruce Epperly
May 13, 2024
Solvitur ambulando! It will be solved by walking! It will be solved in the walking! Where there is movement—whether physical, spiritual, emotional, or intellectual—there is abundant life.
The Temple of God
Bruce Epperly
April 21, 2024
The apostle Paul counsels that “your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit. . . . Glorify God in body” (1 Cor 6:19–20). How do we glorify God with our bodies?
Radical Amazement
Bruce Epperly
April 4, 2024
Jewish theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel affirms that radical amazement is the heart of religious experience. Life is amazing.
‘Hello’ Is a Prayer
Bruce Epperly
March 26, 2024
In the spirit of seeing every encounter as a blessing, let me bring beauty and healing to all my relationships.
Following the Better Angels of Our Nature
Bruce Epperly
March 6, 2024
In his first inaugural address, President Abraham Lincoln counseled his listeners to follow the better angels of their nature. War was on the horizon, and yet Lincoln asserted that “we are not enemies, but friends.”