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Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good — above all, that we are better than someone else — I think...

“Did you make good time?” I remember this question every time we arrived at Granny’s house on E. Montclair or at Uncle Allen’s farm on...

Leavings everywhere – leftover ham in the fridge, Chex mix scattered about, crumpled red and green wrapping, a gift forgotten, someone’s...

(Note to reader: Following is a Christmas meditation punctuated by verses from the original salvation song, Michael Row the Boat Ashore,...

Something was wrong. My otherwise un-intruded childhood witnessed my dark-colored friend, Daniel, mistreated. The uneasiness covered me...

Granting glimmers between reflection and longing, joy lays hold of you by what you know you will lose, with reflections of the...

Don’t think just now of the trudging forward of thought, but of the wing-drive of unquestioning affirmation…. To unwind the reel and...

I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, Or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, But because it never forgot...

Chasing trophies in my youth, chasing validation, a pattern laid a groove in my psyche. My first trophy meant only there would be a...

Not fully cognizant at five o’clock in the morning, I was reading my devotional prayer for the day. At once, a line in the prayer woke me...

Yeshua Cristo relaxed his shoulders. The work had been arduous, long, a bit tedious, challenging but not without joy. Tapestry work...

It would happen this way. One day would move faster than Hassel. The next day would not move fast enough. Hassel and the day could not...

Golf’s simple purpose, made complicated by its attempt, satisfies our desire for pursuit while it frustrates an equal one for beauty and...

Sometimes the thought crosses my mind civilization hinges on whether or not I rise in the morning and make my bed. Remnants of a...

“ Christianity is certainly not melancholy, it is, on the contrary, glad tidings for the melancholy; to the frivolous, it is certainly...

“Master Doulos, Is the Bible true?” That’s an old question many have asked. What do you mean? “I mean, is it factual?” The simple answer...

Foraging through the house, equally through my mind, I searched for my watch. Where did I put it? I’m sure I left it on the coffee table....

Seeing ourselves as we are is a hard thing to do. But what eyes do we trust most but our own? We are our own rule maker in our own little...

I’m up on the mountain. It’s early morn and the day is waking. Sitting outside on the porch, I sense mountain time settle over me much as...

It could be well argued (though argument is far from the point) the most important words in Christendom are “Take, eat” and “Drink from...