On the north side of the church building running the length of the sanctuary as it meets the sidewalk and adjoining street are four evergreen

Last week in New York City prior to the Pope’s arrival there was momentary buzz around a rat and a piece of pizza. As a

Katy Sundararajan gets to write this blog post for me because I finally beat her in a pizza eating contest last fall. Previously she held

The bottle of schnapps sits on the dining room sideboard prominently, displayed really, as special. My friend George made it, having shown me the process:

 Few things are as quintessentially summer as the fair, or for that matter, as quintessentially American. I’m biased, which also seems like an especially American

  Seventy years ago today, at 8:16 AM local time, August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, Japan

I have heard from different folks and different…camps of thought, shall we say, the phrases “for such a time as this” and “the wrong side

Like parents and their children, it seems inappropriate for a minister to have favourite parishioners. But—appropriate or not, fair or not—parents often do, as do

“When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child…” Growing up, the story was