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All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall...

There is a saying, particularly popular among conservatives, that “A conservative is a liberal who...

Have you never felt like one of those pawns forgotten in a corner of the...

As millions of other Americans, I awoke last Wednesday intending to binge watch the Mueller...

My childhood was filled with unusual characters, all products of my father’s fertile imagination. A...

Last Monday, as everyone’s heads were exploding over Donald Trump’s racist tweets targeting four Congresswomen...

Frequently, my conservative commenters suggest I will be immediately straightened out if I just “read...

Not long ago, Jeanne and I saw “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”, the documentary about...

People are prone to apply the meaning of other people’s arguments to suit opinions that...

It is clear that immigration and the southern U.S. border are going to be central...

I am currently in the middle of working through the proofs of my forthcoming book,...

In the early hours of a Sunday morning not long ago, I read the final...

I think it’s time for us to get a little bit more uncompromising in our...

I think that a lot of people stop taking their birthdays seriously after a certain...

If you got to choose the manner of your death, what would your choice be?...

A conversation involving a bunch of guys at a sports bar waiting for the big...

I've been thinking a lot about end of life issues lately. Really. They seem to...

One of the most important tasks that an author has to face when a book...

This August will mark my seventh year of blogging, the last two and a half...

Last week Jeanne and I went with a friend to see the Elton John biopic...

It is the happy life that asks more of us than we realize we have...

I once learned something interesting about giraffes from one of my colleagues. He was lecturing...

There is no greatness where there is no goodness, simplicity, or truth Leo Tolstoy Although Jeanne...

One of the stories that was emphasized regularly in the Baptist Sunday school of my...

According to the reading from John’s gospel at church a couple of days ago, one...

“Now abide faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.” These words...

What is bothering me incessantly is the question of what Christianity really is, or indeed...

The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper. I cannot quite make...

The Bible is filled with rocks. The patriarchs pile rocks up every time they want...

Last Saturday, Jeanne was out of town for work, and I had a choice to...