The Midnight Hour or WTFWJD?
It’s the midnight hour (i.e., between 3:00 and 4:00am when you can’t go back to sleep) before the dawn of Pentecost. For a week I have been struggling intensely with […]
The Rapture: Does it make Scents?
I thought I would write a possibly- farewell post in case any of us are going anywhere on May 21, 2011 that would take us beyond the blogosphere. For those […]
Out of the Closet
Note: We are in the process of getting ready to move from our home of twenty-six years to an apartment at High Valley. I am keeping a journal of the process. […]
The Derivation of Catastrophe
As I write, heroic workers in Japan struggle to prevent what one headline called potential “nuclear catastrophe” in the wake of the record-breaking earthquake and devastating tsunami. I was struck […]
WDJS: What Did Jesus Say? Individual and Corporate Discernment
There was a time in my life when in prayer and meditation, I would ask questions of Jesus (among other deities) and often feel that I had received answers—usually in […]
The People, My People: Who Are They?
Friends in Wisconsin have been daily attending the Madison demonstrations for the right of union workers to bargain collectively. They report spirited and witty placards: “The People’s Republic of Curdistan” […]
The State of Our Stuff–Reposted
I posted the below on 1/25, then discovered my subscription widget had to be reinstalled as the post was not being delivered by email. I hope it reaches you this […]
The State of Our Stuff
While President Obama prepares for his State of the Union address, I thought I would spend my time contemplating the state of my various unions. The other night I was […]
Where have I been? On discovering the existence of The Westboro Baptist Church
Perhaps I have been hiding under a rock—maybe a good strategy, considering—but until today I was blissfully ignorant of the existence of The Westboro Baptist Church and its history of […]
Requiem for a Holy Tree
Arboricide. There really is such a word. It means “the wanton destruction of trees.” On December 8th, 2010 arboricide was committed against the legendary Thorn Tree of Glastonbury, the a […]