How often has any of us heard someone, bemused, say aloud, “I didn’t know I had it in me.”

I think she knew that it was safe enough to die.

It is illegal, now, but historically, blood sports were very popular. By definition, blood sports include activities that inflict serious injuries, pain, or death as

A newly-arrived family from Burundi came to church: two parents and nine children, fresh from a refugee camp in Tanzania.

What I appreciate most about some “proof-texting” is that it helps me to see what biblical texts moved someone to think this way or that.

Chesterton loved Christmas, returning in his essays, poems, and books to the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, again and again.

This was not a conversation in which Jesus is trying to trick someone into confessing or to come out on top or to shame someone.

I’m only just now taking down my Christmas decorations (and full disclosure: the tree is still left). I’ve come to believe I have until Epiphany,

I don’t remember enough geometry to know if Venn diagrams and tangents are connected in any formal way.