July 2016

  • To Love Life: Dancing between Order and Chaos

    To Love Life: Dancing between Order and Chaos

    A sermon I gave at the Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church (Oak Ridge, TN), an overview of Matthew Fox’s Creation Spirituality

  • Songs against Hate

    Songs against Hate

    Last week, we heard about yet another black man killed by police. And immediately after that, we heard about another. As if that wasn’t enough, less than 24 […]

  • For Justice and Reconciliation

    In perfect love and perfect trust, we ask for the blessings of Air, Fire, Water, and Earth to help us dispel darkness and hate with the power of […]

  • For Justice and Reconciliation

    For Justice and Reconciliation

    In perfect love and perfect trust, we ask for the blessings of Air, Fire,Water, and Earth to help us dispel darkness and hate with the power oflight and […]

As Winter’s Darkness Closes InAn Advent Candle-Lighting Poem

As Winter’s Darkness Closes InAn Advent Candle-Lighting Poem

David Ensley Jul 17, 2025

As winter’s darkness closes inWe gather here withinTo hear a…

stone circles in Scotland

Circle Us, O GodCaim Prayers for Current Days

David Ensley Mar 11, 2025

A caim prayer is an ancient Celtic prayer form asking…

collage of icons of Irish saints

Daily Prayer – All Saints

David Ensley Feb 25, 2025

Approach and Invocation Brothers and sisters, + our help is…

Wheat field

Lammas, the Feast of BreadA Reflection on the Grain Harvest

David Ensley Aug 4, 2024

Happy Lughnasadh, y’all! Also called “Lammas,” this is the feast…

The HarrowingA Reflection on Holy Saturday

The HarrowingA Reflection on Holy Saturday

David Ensley Mar 31, 2024

Free verse reflecting on my recent experiences with life and…