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God Made Into Flesh
Christmas movies are a big deal at my house. Jeanne goes for the classics, such as “Miracle on 34th Street,” “The Bishop’s Wife,” “It’s a Wonderful Life,” and (her favorite) “White Christmas.” Those...
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Sword Drills
On one of my family’s summer western treks, we pulled into a Phillips 66 station to fill up. “What does the 66 stand for?” my dad asked, to which I immediately guessed “the 66 books of the Bible?”...
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The Dawn From On High
It has been a beautiful spring in Rhode Island (so far). After more than a week of consecutive sunny days in the fifties and sixties, followed by two or three days of the sort of showers that humans...
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Holy Darkness
I love Advent—it is my favorite liturgical season. In my Baptist upbringing, we didn’t do Advent. Truth be told, we didn’t do liturgical seasons at all. We had Easter Sunday, Christmas, and everything...
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Clouds of Glory
The great but incredibly difficult German philosopher Immanuel Kant, in a rare moment of clarity, wrote that all important human questions can be boiled down to these three: WHAT CAN I KNOW? WHAT OUGHT...
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Cosmic Homecoming
The Old Testament reading for this coming Sunday comes from the obscure minor prophet Zephaniah. The very name transports me back to my childhood where, as a dutiful five-year-old preacher’s kid, I...
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