Five years ago, our church didn’t know the difference between a gravamen and a grommet. Today, we’re facing remarkably difficult decisions about our place in

What do we need in order to celebrate? We think we need better friends. We think we need to be without sin, or pretend to

Energized discussion was already underway when I walked into my college classroom. Students were talking about the news report. A young man, stone drunk, had

I love the books of James McBride. It started with The Good Lord Bird (2013), the umpteenth telling of the story of John Brown but

The last couple of years have seen a lot of change for myself and my friends. Some of us have moved, whether thirty minutes down

One of the small delights of Larry’s life is getting a haircut. At his age he still has enough to cut. It’s thinning, but visible

Every once in a while you hear a lecture that is not only deeply engaging but is packed with enough information as to cause your

A missed basket. An untimely injury. A bad call by the referee. A rare mistake by a gifted athlete. I wish I didn’t care so

Sometime in about 2017, another newlywed I knew from college shared a blog post on Facebook. This piece, which her caption indicated she had found