I like the dust and ashes and all. But I really like the ground.

I have to admit I don’t remember a lot about the 1984 movie “Places in the Heart.”

“I’ve been thinking about the way,” is how Danusha Laméris begins her poem “Small Kindnesses.”  I too have been thinking about the way, the way

I grew up on a dairy farm in northeast Ohio. At that time—in the late 70’s, through the 80’s, and eventually into the 90’s—it was

Walking Hilde my dog around the block a few nights ago we pass the stoop which has become a kind of gathering place for some

This Sunday many congregations are observing the Epiphany.  Of course, the Epiphany took place on Friday past, but our flexible liturgical observance allows us such

Happy New Year! The transition from one year to the next is an auspicious moment to consider not only what has passed but also what

by Thomas Goodhart When a Minister of Word and Sacrament is ordained in the Reformed Church in America, as well as installed, she will make

What do you do when you’re right and others just don’t seem to get it? When agreeing to disagree just won’t work for you. And