Lately and upcoming …

Since my return from Israel and Palestine in January, my travel schedule has been very full but very encouraging and fruitful. In February, I was in Boston at Andover-Newton Seminary, in San Diego with the Episcopal Diocese, in London, England with Oasis Trust, in Denver with Presbyterians and Methodists along with a new nondenominational church, in Bethlehem, PA at the Moravian Seminary and in Baltimore at the Ecumenical Institute.
Tomorrow I leave for Texas where I’ll be at Baylor University and Truett Seminary. Then I’ll get several days to catch my breath before heading to Albuquerque to be with Fr. Richard Rohr (April 9-11), then to Minnesota for an MPR lecture, then to Chicago (17-19), then back to Maryland and Washington DC before going to Kenya and Burundi in May. I’m not bored! In all these travels, just as we see signs of spring around us, I see signs of hope for needed change – and examples of people doing wonderful things for God, neighbor, and creation.