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Working from home occasionally gives me time to watch the birds at my feeder: sweet chickadees, upside-down nuthatches, tufted titmice, tiny goldfinches yellowing up by the day. But it’s the […]

Calling all Trunks! You’re invited to join in the fun and hand out candy for Trunk or Treat, October 26. Let’s make it a howling good time for our youngest […]

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is […]

Those engaged in the current efforts to censure and erase certain inconvenient truths about American history from public school curriculums may not understand the critical role those inconvenient truths play […]

I’ll say this for the psalms: they’re honest. Psalm 17 ends by wishing for vengeance, vengeance big enough and painful enough that there’s suffering left over for the enemies’ kids […]

️ Our own Dr. Leah Georges joined Dave Wingert on Boomer Radio this morning for a fun and thoughtful chat about leadership. We especially loved her take on practicing “joyful […]

In an age of algorithmic indignation and digital squawking, I’m tired of darting from one screenshot to another in a state of online outrage. I’m tired of clicking on links […]

Poet Andrea Gibson died a little over two months ago from the cancer they lived with, loved through, and wrote on for the past three years. If you haven’t read […]

It’s a classic joke. Two parents look out over some household catastrophe, aghast at the chaos created by one small unattended person in a short time. Then one parent turns […]

War is not the great democratizer. It is the great demolisher.   War always hurts the poor.    The Bible records and predicts it all. There is no great violence in which […]