Poem You must turn away from the speech center until the desire for language slips beyond the weary orbits of vocabulary and definition into that
Living in the present is at once the easiest and the hardest thing you’ll do. And the key is found in those two short words (six letters) “at once” …
The story of Jacob wrestling at Peniel has always puzzled me. In my first Bible, the New International Version I read as a third-grader, the subject heading was “Jacob Wrestles with an Angel.” If this stranger is indeed an angel of the Lord, it is not one of the sort pictured on greeting cards or spoken of in sentimental tales of angels in disguise helping people unaware …
The resurrection of Christ is a mystery to me. I can’t explain it. Some people find it difficult to accept mystery. Over the years I have heard sermons and read articles that want to “prove” the resurrection …
How we spend our money is how we vote on what exists in the world. The hundreds of billions of tax dollars wasted annually for war and war preparation is money unavailable for programs of social uplift, especially hunger relief, poverty reduction, affordable housing, education, medical care or meaningful, life-sustaining jobs …
God died on Good Friday. There could be no more chaos in the universe than in those hours between Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection. But what the disciples experienced as chaos during those hours—and what we experience as chaos today—God sees differently …
A few years ago I officiated at a wedding. On that December evening, participants in the ceremony, including me, carried these lanterns. The colors of the layers of sand were yellow and blue, the colors worn by the bride and groom. Two people, surrounded by friends and family, joined their lives together that day …
