[Do me a favor: Promise me you’ll read this post with The National’s “Conversation 16” video playing in the background. Don’t try to exegete the

So The Twelve–Reformed Done Daily is moving into its third month.  So far.  So good.  I’m told readership is strong and growing, although it can

Books lying around the house are never safe from my readerly omnivory.  So naturally I grabbed up the book my husband received from his brother

Case closed.  I’m an Iowan, once upon a time a Republican, and I am at this moment endorsing a candidate.  (Now please stop calling.)  I’d

Perhaps it was because of Dorothy. The day prior having completed the funeral committal service five years in the making. Is it wrong as a

The incarnation – This is the heart of my theology. The flesh: body, feelings, thinking, desire, touching, fighting colds, crying because of joy, butterflies in

“A good sermon turns even known truth into profound realization.”   That is one of many striking lines in a fine New York Times Book Review

Since the etymology of the title “Boxing Day” is unknown, might I suggest the name was coined to describe the violent behavior of the masses