Our church is blessed to have many young families and lots of small children. Little ones with loud voices, squirmy bodies, and enough energy to send […]
Blandina’s Cry: I am Christian
From as far back as I can remember, I’ve been into horror, supernatural, ghosts, and more. I love Halloween and all the movies that show up […]
Honoring Grief and Taking Action
I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain, common working men. –Frances Perkins During her 12 years as […]
Allergies to Individualism
In the bookstore of the Ephrata Cloister in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, I found a slim volume called A Short, Easy, and Comprehensive Method of Prayer, by Johannes Kelpius—a botanist, astronomer, hymn-writer and Pietist mystic. […]
The Power of Choice
Several years ago, after another weekend of squeezing in too many activities, my family decided to stop overbooking ourselves.
Being Stewards of God’s Children with Saint Joseph
One of my favorite aspects of parenting, and one of the most difficult things to remember, is that I am simply a steward of God’s children.
We are Dust
For many years, I took Lent as an opportunity to add a spiritual practice.
Lessons from a Sabbatical
When I took a sabbatical from my congregation last fall, I planned to be away from home for half of the ten week time period.
The New Look of Christendom
Now, I understand that it is now considered problematic to use the Hebrew Scriptures as Phillip did in this passage, as proof-texts of the divinity of Jesus, but that is not the problem I’m interested in here.
Magic and Miracles
The reality is more astonishing than the illusion.