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.
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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.
‘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.”
Blessed Are the Meek
Bruce Epperly
February 20, 2024
The meek are blessed precisely because they recognize their dependence on the generosity of God and creation.
Your Thoughts Can Change Your Life
Bruce Epperly
February 20, 2024
Philippians 4:8 counsels us to think about things that are commendable, excellent, and worthy. The quality of our thoughts can bring joy or sorrow to our lives.
Rejoice in Humanity
Bruce Epperly
February 19, 2024
Saints rejoice in their common humanity, knowing that God’s word becomes flesh in fallible and ambivalent persons like ourselves.
Love and Triumph
Bruce Epperly
February 17, 2024
As Bonaventure writes, God is “totally submerged in the waters from the sole of the foot to the top of the head…. [God] appeared to you as your beloved cut through with wound upon wound in order to heal you.”