Just the other day I walked to work–about seven blocks in all–for the first time since early July. It’s amazing how we take the simple

“I’m going to baptize my grandkids this summer!” These were the words of an Elder in my congregation, a grandmother, as she headed out for

I really appreciated psychologist Laurence Steinberg’s article last week, “The Case for Delayed Adulthood.” He acknowledges that the societal ways we talk about the path to adulthood

“There’s a lot of down time between the mighty deeds of God.” I heard myself saying this to my friend Sharon over pancakes yesterday. We

Dowa Yalanne is the kind of place that really deserves the word monumental. There it stands like a momentary eruption stopped in time, a bundle

Recently late one Friday night I was returning from having visited a parishioner at a local hospital. Walking in the upper east side of New

I just wrote an entire blog. Hit the save button. My internet went out. The entire piece is now missing. This is how I feel: