With Chinese New Year beginning on the 12th February, the main winter moments of celebration—Advent, Christmas, New Year—are over. We are invited into the deeper mystery of our annual rotation around the sun. In a culture dominated by summer, though …
https://www.tedkarpf.com/teds_content/uploads/2021/02/new-years-sermon-21.mp4
The excitement of the season is blunted, by the mere fact that so many are grieving and filled with a sense of loss in the face of Covid-19. Nonetheless, the stars and planets continue to invite us to look up …
Facebook Twitter Youtube These days, of the year winding down, are exciting if you are living in the Washington DC metropolitan area. An administration transition brings whole new groups of people into the city as whole groups leave or seemingly …
We are living an amazing moment of contradiction and challenge. The fullness of the autumn comes upon us bringing earlier and earlier sunsets; daytimes with the sun moving farther and farther south; and the awareness of more immediately descending darkness …
I look to autumn as the season which shakes us from our lethargy; that is, from the long hot summer with its casual day-to-day-ness. Long ago autumn marked the return to school and another birthday for me, when getting the …
If you have been up and about late at night or around 4 am, just before dawn, you may have noticed flecks of light jetting across the skies during these warm nights and gentle mornings. Since mid-July and until the …
Ah, it’s summer, but this one feels very different with our masking, social isolation and distancing and ongoing rolling lockdowns and pauses in reintegrating our society. So I have chosen to look at things that are the same always. Above …
It is crucial to bring forward and acknowledge the intersection between white supremacist structures and our own racialization as white people, straight people, normal people; a journey to be sure.
The surprise announcement by the President of the United States, 11 days after demanded a 30-day investigation, to withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO) represents yet another grotesque betrayal of the global community. This time thought, it is tantamount to …
