Gratitude is hard to learn, as any parent will tell you. Sometimes I hesitate before giving some treat to a child because I know…
Recently people have asked if I’m retired. No, I say. In fact, I don’t believe in it. For one thing, I don’t golf. Tried…
One of the things I find myself constantly thinking about is how discerning, faithful Christians can bring a measure of grace into our fallen…
Margie and I have been talking recently about what we call our new normal. We’re aging, which is no surprise since we’ve been doing that…
I recently reread St Augustine’s Confessions. And once again I am impressed by his uncompromising insistence that love is central to Christian faith and…
It is an interesting exercise to ask friends what changes going on in our world seem to them to be most significant. The answers…
The association of ashes (or dust) with repentance has a long history. After Job, for example, encounters God, his response is to “repent in…
A failure of imagination In the July 30, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, Laura Miller, a Slate columnist published “Accept the Mystery,” a…
“Fear not” The 2016 election accomplished two things simultaneously. It put Donald Trump in the White House and it revealed some issues within the…
The tension of stewardship A few years ago Margie and I were invited to lecture in Florida, after which one of our hosts generously…
