How do we approach an average day while across the ocean pregnant women are bombed to death? How do we think about errands while men leave their families at the border to go back and fight to the death? How do we sit in front of our glowing television screens and watch cities pounded into […]

Something to ponder this morning ... What if the church helped people become the kind of people who: Loved one another? Forgave one another? Prayed for one another? Bore one another's burdens? Were devoted to one another? Regarded one another as more important than oneself? Did not speak against one another? Did not judge one […]

Some people I love are burying a precious, deeply loved, way too young child. I don't have words for the sadness. Sometimes poems speak for my broken heart. This one does: "And this is the consolation - that the world doesn't end, that the world one day opens up into something better, and that we one […]

David Brooks wrote a very powerful essay in the Sunday New York Times editorial section of February 6. I have been pondering his thoughtful words since I first read them. I want to share just a few snippets to get your thoughts. Here is one paragraph that caught my attention: Russell Moore resigned from his […]

I got Covid a few weeks ago after two years of trying to avoid it. I am vaccinated and boosted. I was wearing a mask in public spaces. I still got sick; more sick than I had been in a few years. And of course, I passed it along to my husband. I ended up […]

When I was young, I was often homesick. I hated sleepovers and called my folks to pick me up before the fun started. I despised Girl Scout camps and feigned illness to escape. I didn't like being away from home; it left me with an ache in my soul I couldn't put words to. I […]