Christians talk about the “fallen” state of Creation. Non-Christians talk about all that is “broken” in our world. Different perspectives render different conclusions about the same experiences; but those experiences…
Something new in my neighborhood, almost a trend: middle-school boys –replete with hoodies, bicycles, iphones, and skateboards – are climbing up onto roofs. Several were on the roof of the…
My college best friend lost her father-in-law, Sidney, the day of the Presidential Inauguration. His death came in the midst of a torrent of fathers of friends dying – fathers…
Until the invention of the camera, people relied on artists to record the world. When photography started supplying that record in explicitly precise terms, the role of artists shifted subtly:…
Like much of the world, I watched the events that unfolded in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday evening and struggled to identify (much less manage) a powerful mix of emotional responses. …
The fourth verse of the Christmas carol “We Three Kings” always struck me as an unnecessarily maudlin bummer: “Myrrh is mine, it's bitter perfumeBreaths a life of gathering gloom;Sorrowing, sighing,…
Don’t you love watching the animated short A Charlie Brown Christmas? For my family, nothing hollers “December!” more invitationally than Vince Guaraldi’s piano music and Snoopy skating across a pond.…
The call of God repeats ad infinitum: “Journey!” Life, God’s great gift to His Creation, consists entirely of journey. We journey through time, one season left behind and another always…
I had the pleasure of reading to a favorite five-year-old yesterday. She snuggled on my lap; I had fun using all my best “character voices;” both of us got up…
