Category Archives: Gerry Mueller

For most of my time in parish ministry, and even before, I served as a volunteer on-call chaplain in several community hospitals. I can think of no better way of coming face-to-face with human tragedy and the inevitable questions it brings; let’s face it, no one calls for a chaplain in the middle of the […]

I want to tell you a folk tale from Eastern Europe, but it could be from anywhere, even here. A young man is sitting under a tree outside a village, waiting for Mary, a young woman from a neighbouring village, coming for a dance. He thinks,      “Waiting, just waiting is really boring!” And immediately, there’s […]

The time is a little more than 2000 years ago. High on the plains of Persia a scholar, we would call him an astrologer or the Greek name magus (plural magi), is intensely studying the night sky. There was no doubt about it anymore. Night after night it has appeared in exactly the same place […]

In the silence of a midwinter dusk there is far off in the deeps of it somewhere a sound so faint that for all you can tell it may be only the sound of the silence itself. You hold your breath to listen. You walk up the steps to the front door. The empty windows […]