If you care about poverty, homelessness, mental illness, drug addiction, or the morale of law enforcement, I hope you find some time to...

Thanks be to God, the tide is turning.  Bill Clinton and Anthony Weiner occurred at a time when they were viewed as isolated incidents...

I understand that the literalists will have a problem with Rohr’s statement, but the point is essentially accurate:  Our divisions are...

Before burning season is over, though, we’re already on the prowl for new wood for the next season.  It must be found, cut into pieces...

I wrote it out on an index card and put it in my pocket.  It served me well during those tumultuous days, when I was feeling socially...

A letter in the Washington Post This week World Relief bought space in the Washington Post in order to invite President Trump to...

Words matter. Mr. Trump spoke on the bus about making unwanted sexual advances and literally grabbing women. He spoke to Howard Stern...

“Speaking of Jesus”, which is one of my favorite books, precisely because the author has a knack for telling people about Jesus as if...

It’s nothing new. And further, it’s nothing new to note that it’s all being done in God’s name by both sides. Giving a soldier a Bible...

“snow on snow” (12 feet, or 4 meters for my Europe friends) as the Christmas carol says, the house was dark because the power had gone...

“when the raft in the ocean is safer than our home, we’ll go” With the train station closed in Budapest, over 70 dead in a truck on the...

I’m happy to offer a repost today of something offered earlier this summer during my sabbatical because it seems so very appropriate...

I’m sitting here on my weekly day of Sabbath, staring out the window at fir trees laden with wet, dripping life down onto the soil and...

That’s because I live in a different world.  I live in a world where I know more and more people who are coming out of closet; they’re...

The sad truth is that, even by their own admission, politicians and the machinery that work so hard to get them elected, had no interest...

These prayers, though, are also very provincial.  They’re about our real situation because mostly, this is what we know about when we’re...

Dissociative disorder is defined as a “disruption or breakdown of memory, awareness, identity or perception.”  It’s a common occurrence...

I wake up this morning in Colorado and, as is typical, make my coffee and then go to my ipad where I catch up on the news before reading...

lake.  It’s about a half mile down to the park on the waterfront and when I arrive, the suns maybe 15 minutes from dipping below the Alps...

And there are lots of other ideas as well, tens of thousands of “medium ideas” that have been shaping forces in still significant ways: ...