Eulogies: Alice
by David Pettit On these summer Sundays, I invite you to think about lives and what they have meant. To think not with a pietistic
David Pettit
August 9, 2015
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by David Pettit On these summer Sundays, I invite you to think about lives and what they have meant. To think not with a pietistic
Three months on from the deaths of my parents, a week out from my daughter’s wedding, I finally get back to this cloth tote bag,
I can’t argue with anything Thomas Goodhart offered us here yesterday. My first perceptions of nuclear war came when, as a grade-schooler, we snuck under
Seventy years ago today, at 8:16 AM local time, August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, Japan
[8/5/15 While the Rev. Jes Kast-Keat is on vacation, the Rev. Marla Rotman is filling in. Marla shares the position of lead pastor with her
For many years I greatly enjoyed posting restaurant reviews for Zagat. I stopped doing it a few years ago after Google bought out Zagat and
By Brian Keepers The sound of Israeli jets rumbles above us like a chorus of thunder. The students keep working, seemingly impervious to the whole
by David Pettit He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and does not come again. Psalm 78:39 “I write eulogies,” he
Here’s the second installment, gentle reader, in my series on five favorite films—more precisely, five movies that I’ve found worthy of virtually infinite re-viewing, with