Many of you are doubtlessly familiar with Mary Oliver’s “The Summer’s Day”–with its moving invitation to attentiveness and to relishing one’s “one wild and precious

I may have moved to a condo in recent years, but I still have a wonderful little hanging pot of tomatoes on my back deck.

I had the delight this past semester to teach a “gen ed” global literature class that I nicknamed “Epic Journeys.” That means we read lots

I’ve grown to love what has become a bit of a tradition for me: to post prayers from my dear friend, Jane Zwart, every time

It’s Teacher Appreciation Week, so I’ve been thinking not only of the many extraordinary teachers I’ve had in my own life but about the very

How do we live in a world, as my minister reminds us every week, “where a Resurrection has happened.” In this now season of Easter,

In talking with many of my church-raised students, I’ve often heard them complain about how they heard the same handful of Bible stories again and

I was thinking about what I should write for this week’s blog when I came across a Lenten meditation by my friend and colleague, Chad