Over the years, I’ve developed a little tradition of writing a letter to the child or children being baptized as the sermon on that Sunday.

We had new carpeting installed at our house this week, and somehow this led to me scrubbing out the cupboard under the kitchen sink. What

That Alice Kirk Grierson loved her husband is clear from the letters she sent him, full of devotion that wasn’t simply practiced or platonic. For

Curse you, Rev. Jonker! Well not really, but we were coached to open provocatively. Still, it’s 3:34 am and I am re-listening to his sermon.

I’m technically on vacation right now. “Technically,” because I did spend time finishing a syllabus on Saturday and I did go into work today for a meeting. Well, and

Not that long ago,* I called on an elderly man of my congregation who was hospitalized. On my previous visit he had requested that I

Today’s entry is not an opinion piece but a hodge-podge of things I want to make sure our readers are aware of. One might even

Over the years, I’ve developed a little tradition of writing a letter to the child or children being baptized as the sermon on that Sunday.

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