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If I had wanted to become a fluent German speaker, I should have started before I was ten years old, which seems to be the
Aging and retirement are distinct concepts, of course, but they frequently intersect. For clarity’s sake, let’s agree that aging is a natural biological process that
My 96-year-old mother entered hospice care a few months ago. For a while, it seemed as though she would go on forever, even though we
I’ve been working on a writing project, and an unexpected theme has emerged. Fear. The book isn’t a memoir – not really – but it
On 9/11 last year I was living in the Hague, Netherlands and serving a congregation founded several decades ago by Reformed Church in America pastors.
On March 18, 2002, the sanctuary of the St. Michael Catholic Church was destroyed by fire. St. Michael is a Roman Catholic church in Wheaton,
Tell me, why do we send the ushers around with offering baskets during worship – when most members have already given electronically, either through automatic
“Regret,” says author Brené Brown, “is a tough but fair teacher.” The idea, she writes, is that regret gives us the opportunity to grow, to
I have new respect for interim pastors. More often, these days, they’re called transitional pastors, but whatever we call them, I now see in a
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