It is my blog custom on my wife Jeanne's birthday to post a reflection on how we met and how lucky I am. Some of you have read this one--if so, enjoy it again! If not, meet my beautiful partner! Please join me in celebrating my favorite person's natal day! Read more
Breaking from Andy Borowitz: In a surprise announcement, Trump tells the White House press corps that Earth is a terrible, very bad planet. It’s maybe the worst planet in the solar system, and it’s far from the biggest. Read more
A familiar story from the Jewish scriptures tells us what Donald Trump really needs. And no, it isn't a better communications team. Read more
The voices of spirituality, religion, secularism, materialism, power, and greed often are speaking languages so incompatible that our world appears to be little more than a cacophony of white noise at different pitches. We really need a Pentecost moment Read more
From the book of Acts, a story of a person who experienced radical forgiveness, then found it impossible to express that sort of forgiveness toward someone else when the opportunity arose. It's a familiar human experience. Read more
Frederick Buechner suggests that coincidences may be more than chance occurrences. They may be trying to tell us something. My latest coincidence told me that I was being a jerk. Read more
In an early season of "House of Cards," Frank Underwood observes that "democracy is so overrated!" Events over the past many months should cause us to wonder seriously whether he is right. Read more
God has given us everything we need to address the problems in front of us. Trust what you have been given, do your homework, look at the options, then choose. And flip a coin if you have to. What’s the worst that could happen? Read more
Do dogs go to heaven? Some people turn this into a convoluted theological debate--Do dogs have souls? for instance. Not me. All I know that if dogs don't go to heaven, I'm not going either. Read more
There are many possible reasons why evangelical Christians voted for Donald Trump in record numbers. A couple of them were on display at his commencement address at Liberty University. Read more
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