The large pencils carried in the protests and vigils after the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris, caught my eye. I think they reminded me of

It’s been almost two weeks since my entire backpack was stolen from a locked office in one of the hospitals where I work occasional chaplain

I’ve been thinking about the complexity of modern communications and entertainment and the very long distance between the Ancient Near Eastern world of the Bible

I know, I know–there are places on earth where at some times of the year day is night and night is day. I shouldn’t complain about

When I was in second grade I began to have a hard time seeing the chalkboard from my desk–still had chalkboards then. Later it would

In my Twittersphere there has been a lot of talk about reclaiming Dr. King as the prophetic preacher that he was. There is a fear

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