Jews have a thing about food, but every ethnic group thinks it has a thing about food. For us, however, food and eati ...

Brian McLaren came to visit us this past Sunday.  He’s a well known Emergent Church Evangelical speaker and writer � ...

Everybody’s life is circumscribed in some way or another. None of us can do whatever we want, whenever we want, whe ...

I am sick and tired of hearing people pontificate on how same sex marriage will degrade the institution of marria ...

New Life and Resurrection obviously fit with Easter!    The theme totally works!   We can do New L ...

Among those who didn’t need to be attentive in physics class because they know how the universe really works:Pat Robertso ...

So, yesterday we had the "Doubting Thomas" story in church. This story does lend itself to looking at the role of doubt ...

What do Mickey Mantle, John Elway, Kevin Johnson, and Phil Esposito have in common? It’s not their sport. It’s the numb ...

Here's a very interesting article in last Newsweek. This is another long article... but if you have the time... provocativ ...

This is one of those deep rubber-meets-the-road sort of reads. I'm sure you'll find it meaningful.My Faith: What people ta ...

Sorry folks - a long post... but WELL worth the read! I’m Christian, unless you’re gay.By Dan PearceToday I want to w ...

PALM SUNDAY- Jerusalem was to that time, place and religion as Mecca and the Kabbah is to Islam. It was a place ...

Have you ever had an MRI? If so, you have Isador Rabi, Nobel laureate in physics, to thank. Rabi, the son of poor immigrant ...

Where are we? These past Lenten evenings we’ve been going through the different “seasons”; of life, of faith, o ...

Peter Beinart, in his 3/18/2012 New York Times op-ed calls for a bizarre response to the insidious anti-Israel B.D.S. (Boyc ...

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Sorry it's been so long... time does fly as you prepare for this, do that, have projects to work on,,, etc. Anyway... a ...

There lies a mystery behind what we see... a mystery that doesn't always reveal it's presence to us in our ordinary lives. ...

Charles du Bos (1882-1939), French critic of French and English literature, is credited with saying, “The important thin ...

Ah, the eternal conundrum: Is your glass half full or half empty?Parshat Vayikra and indeed, all of the Book of Leviticus, ...

Narratives are composed of details. Lots and lots of details that our brains sort, organize, and combine to produce a narra ...

Lenten Meditation“Knock, And He'll open the door Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He'll raise you ...

Carl Jung, Swiss psychoanalyst, on the shadow-side of self. We all have a shadow-side. the issue is are we dealing with t ...

Cartoonist Al Capp (remember Li’l Abner?) described modern art as “a produce of the untalented, sold by the unprinciple ...

A reminder from a modern day prophet - Oscar Romero“We have never preached violence,except the violence of love,which lef ...

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was 'Thank you', that would be sufficient."-- Meister Eckhart ...

From First United Methodist Church, Madison, WI Tuesday, February 28Posted by Judith Hutchinson on Feb 28, 2012 “Hope.” ...

Sometimes, even in our world of plenty (stuff and things, and people and activity), we may feel the desolation of drought T ...

As we move through Lent… called to fast, pray, give, focus, among other things… Perhaps the biggest call in our ...

A good message anytime… “How are you tending to the emerging story of your life? From Mark Nepo’s book ...