A colleague opened a meeting with a prayer, “God, we know that you reveal far more than we are able to receive or even notice.
When I started my first “official” pastoral role in the late 1990’s, I immediately hung a painting of Rembrandt’s Return of the Prodigal Son on
Yesterday, during a NW Iowa blizzard, a friend and I went out for a beer. Sitting in the warm glow of sports television we talked
Meeting at First Church I’ve entered an incarnated coma. Images have been frozen in place for 40 years: the biblical equivalent of a “long, long
In the third month after the Israelites left Egypt, they arrived at the Desert of Sinai and camped in front of the mountain. Before God
State of Our Union Tonight the President will deliver the delayed State of the Union speech to Congress. Its every word will be analyzed. Pundits
Why are women in civil rights typically so invisible? There is some debate over the extent to which women served as organizers or leaders during
A friend of mine says that Mary Oliver saved his life. Her vivid opening line in the poem, “The Journey” pierced him with an urgent
Morning, west window The sky feels oddly bright, considering the snow thickly falling in clustered flakes. The wind gusts, whirling flakes into powder, snowglobing my
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