Where Are We (And What Are We Doing In This Handbasket)? Someone once said that the one doctrine of Christianity…

Definitions Again In these “interesting” times it is often necessary to be clear about what the words mean. See “Names”…

Commitment to Relationships This beatitude shows that one of God’s core values is a commitment to relationships. God’s desire is…

An Analogy An analogy that I commonly appeal to with regard to the Christian life is the notion of sight-seeing…

Two Kinds of Mercy There are two forms of mercy: what we might call “active” and “passive”. Active mercy involves…

Fullness and Privation Nobody who is full will be hungry, nor will anyone who has had enough to drink be…

Sometimes I think my role in life is to be a kind of walking dictionary. Having poetic pretensions, both in…

The Last Guy Back in the ’60s, Arlo Guthrie did a song called “The Pause of Mr. Claus.” In the…