Jane Rzepka

Jane Ranney Rzepka is the author of A Small Heaven and Thematic Preaching and former minister of congregations in Winchester and Reading, Massachusetts, as well as the Church of the Larger Fellowship. She taught preaching at Harvard Divinity School for a number of years.

From Jane Rzepka

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I spent some time this weekend with an old friend, a dentist. She's considering buying her own practice, but wonders if she could retain the current patients and attract new ones. She wonders if the office staff would like her, or befriend her too much, or resent her, or desert her; she wonders...

Meditation | By Jane Rzepka | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Acceptance, Courage, Faith, Fear, Living Our Faith, Secular, Wholeness

A one-paragraph newspaper article describes a subway platform during the morning rush hour at Grand Central Terminal. A train pulls in; a well-dressed woman gets off. Before the doors close, the woman realizes that she is holding only one of her leather gloves. She looks back into the train and...

Reading | By Jane Rzepka | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Balance, Letting Go, Playfulness, Work

When all is quiet and we are small and the night is dark, may we hear the tender breathing of all who lie awake with us in fear, that together we may gather strength to live with love, and kindness, and confidence.

Closing | By Jane Rzepka | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Compassion, Empathy, Fear

A well-known poem by Robert Graves speaks of butterflies—their "honest idiocy of flight," "lurching here and there by guess and God and hope and hopelessness." Any number of quotations sound this way, and so, I think do we. But privately. Publicly we speak the civilized language of human beings...

Reading | By Jane Rzepka | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Acceptance, Connections, Suffering

On Mother's Day, one expects to read about the wonder and glory of motherhood....

Reading | By Jane Rzepka | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Children, Direct Experience, Generations, Mother's Day, Mothers, Parents, Relationships

Some people seek balance and stability, but I like to be off-kilter.

By Jane Rzepka | September 7, 2014 | From UU World
Tagged as: Personal Stories, Personal Inspiration

I remember the truth and the love and the social justice, but also the cartwheels and the donuts.

By Jane Rzepka | March 23, 2014 | From Life
Tagged as: Personal Stories, Faith Development, Personal Inspiration

Recalling a childhood in a Unitarian Universalist fellowship.

By Jane Rzepka | May 29, 2011 | From Spirit
Tagged as: Personal Stories, Personal Inspiration

Each of us must decide the personal meaning of the Passover and Easter stories.

By Jane Rzepka | April 9, 2006 | From Spirit
Tagged as: Spiritual Practice, Personal Inspiration

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