My four-point spiritual health check
IT’S EARLY ENOUGH in the New Year for at least some people to still be tracking their new exercise regime, diet, or other self-improvement plan. Maybe…
My Top Ten of 2017
SORRY TO disappoint any fans of Maria von Trapp, but I’m not so big on cream-colored ponies or schnitzels with noodles. However, I do have for…
There’s no shushing the shepherds…
PREACHER TONY Campolo used to make me laugh when he’d tell how, as a Baptist, he was mistaken for a Pentecostal by some people because he…
Pointing the Christmas light the right way
FOR A MOMENT, I wondered whether I had gotten the directions wrong and ended up in a nightclub rather than the big church whose production we…
The lesson of The Advent Sausage
BRITISH supermarket chain Greggs had hoped lots of people would eat their sausage rolls this holiday season. However, the business ended up chewing on a big…
A Trojan horse Christmas
IF THERE IS a war on Christmas, then the church is losing, and not for the reasons that are commonly cited. I don’t believe the church…
Pinball Thanksgiving
WHEN LIFE BEGINS to feel like a big game of pinball, with me the steel sphere getting bounced around from one thing to the next, I…
The animal who made me a little more human
I USED TO be one of those people who privately thought that pet-lovers mourning the loss of their animal just needed to get over it, already.…
Flappy pants, unflappable faith
WHEN WE WERE invited to light a candle in memory of someone who had made a deep impact on us, during our church’s All Saints’ Day…
Hope for flakes
ONE OF MY favorite lines in Anne Lamott’s pleasing, latest book, Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy, is the observation that “the good news is that God has…
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