The first time I tried sushi was almost fifteen years ago when a parishioner named Bill Smith took me to his favorite Japanese restaurant. Bill

In third grade, I discovered the Chronicles of Narnia. The books have been inseparable from me ever since. As an adult, I still love reading

All of us are aware of the biblical phrase, “they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.” Some of us

I spent this afternoon on a train with a gazillion other people in the heart of Bangkok. My big body and beard made me seem

I haven’t gone to many academic conferences the last few years, having been out of the country, so it was good to return to the

Toward the end of “The Two Towers”, by J.R.R. Tolkien, Frodo and Sam, on their way to destroy the Ring, take a rest “in a

A couple of months ago at a conference I was privileged to hear former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams.  The conference was aimed chiefly at

There’s nothing like moving to give you concrete evidence of how much stuff you own. We moved from a rental to our own home and

Give the king your justice, O God… May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the needy, and crush