I know Debra used a Mary Oliver quote in her post on Saturday, but I generally feel it’s never a bad idea to emulate Debra

I was having drinks with a friend on Saturday night when a woman at the table next to ours made really intense eye contact with

There is nothing new under the sun. In July, 2006, Hezbollah fighters fired rockets from Lebanon into Israel as a distraction from the anti-tank missile

There I was, just sitting on my couch, when the ducks in dresses appeared. Not literally. Unfortunately. Rather, through that medium of all things weird

I’ve been thinking a lot about truth-telling lately. I’m working on a presentation for a preaching conference next month. I’ve titled the workshop “Preaching Towards

I got Covid last week, and it knocked me right out. Which meant I spent a lot of time on my couch in front of

Two weeks ago, I visited the Rembrandt House Museum in Amsterdam, where Rembrandt van Rijn lived, painted, and sold paintings from 1639 to 1658. An

When this blog goes live, I will hopefully be thousands of feet in the air over the mid-Atlantic, on my way to the Netherlands for

My great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather was a priest in the Netherlands. That’s thirteen “greats” if you weren’t counting. His name was Feito Ruardi, and he was born in