At Saturday’s Women’s Grief Gathering on February 19,2022, we talked about the therapeutic value of laughter during our discussion time. This article by Jonah Goldberg, who is quite funny himself, points out some interesting historical perspective on humor...
I love reading Jill Carattini’s devotional from Ash Wednesday of 2014 and her reference here to Lauren Winner, another thought provoking writer: Sleep and Ashes The Christian Vision Project was an initiative that began three consecutive years with a question....
People are ( and have been for a while) going way out of their way to criticize one another’s choices politically based on “Christian” faith. I doubt Jesus could be said to have agreed with the brutal empire that ruled Judah and all the environment in his world at the...
“…..while Christ teaches us the value of love over violence, the power of life over death, he never strayed away from necessary conflict. Disciples rebuked, Pharisees chastised, a temple cleared of money changers…these are also pictures of Christ....
“Identity to me is practical. It’s a dramatic role that you play out in the world. And while playing that out, it has to furnish you with a life— which means that it has to be negotiated with other people. When you’re a very young child, you first...
5/17/21 A friend of mine had posted this on her Facebook page this week: “My good buddy, who is a Master Sergeant in the U.S. Army just informed me that he just left a briefing (this morning) where he was told that our government will soon be making...
