Who of us likes to start over? Noah, his sons, daughters-in-law, and the creatures of the earth start over with God on behalf of all creation. Imagine the angst and fear...

You are never the same again.” I have heard that statement from parishioners who have encountered utter holiness—the glory of God. Often it comes at the endpoints of life: seeing a...

Why is this happening?” is the common question we raise in times of crisis. We desperately want to understand even when we know there are no easy or understandable answers. We...

The term outlier has come into contemporary use detached from its meaning in Malcolm Gladwell’s book, Outliers: The Story of Success, which put the word into our parlance. Many equate outlier...

Wait for it . . . ” is a popularly used phrase. It bids our patience to wait for the sake of something more, something better. I have never been good...

A pop song came out in 1982 called “Heartlight.” The love song was part of the soundtrack of the child-friendly sci-fi movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. E.T. is a frail and skittish...

As a child, I was both terrified and tantalized by The Wizard of Oz. The Wicked Witch of the West scared me, but I loved Glinda, the Good Witch of the...

Today is my birthday and, like every day since I turned thirteen, I will put in my contact lenses in order to see clearly. I have astigmatism. The prefix, a means...

Questions abound in Isaiah 40: Have you been paying attention? Who is like God? The questions continue in these verses: “Have you not known? Have you not heard?” In other words,...

Have you ever walked away from a tense conversation won-dering what caused you to get so worked up? Something was at stake for you that surprised you and caused a defensive...