Nobody’s Perfect, and That’s the Point of the Christmas Story If Jesus were a guest on Finding Your Roots, it would be a very interesting...

A week ago, I saw two stories about hope on the same page of the newspaper. {Boston Globe, 4/23/22} Both took place in Ukraine. The...

There are so many Easter stories and each one in the Bible is a little different. In every gospel, the women are the protagonists and...

Anyone who thinks Jesus was not political does not really understand what’s going on in Holy Week. When Jesus came to Jerusalem he was...

Profiles of Faith How did she do it? How did this brilliant jurist endure the insults, the interruptions, the obvious denigration from...

Outside in my garden this weekend, I found something that surprised me. When I pulled a cloth off the raised bed for vegetables I found...

When I stopped at a red light a little voice in the backseat asked me to play that song about Bruno. As we pulled away from the...

My God, my God, enough. After two years of a pandemic that killed 6 million people in the world, now Russia invades Ukraine. (Actually ...

Lent is never easy but this is one of the Lentier Lents we’ve had and we’ve had some bad ones recently. Two years ago, at the start of...

One hundred years ago at the end of World War I some people in the United States wanted to punish the Germans, but not President Woodrow...

I love to watch the Olympics but these winter sports can be terrifying if you really think about actual people doing them. Who sails out...

Last year we bought tickets for the Van Gogh exhibit touring the country. It called to us. Apparently, the art isn’t set in frames on a...

The Bible says, “Be not Afraid” but who are we kidding? We are all afraid. We just try to hide it. “Don’t let them know you are afraid.” ...

I have spent the last few months talking to pastors and rabbis about how they have led their churches and synagogues through this...

Last summer I was cleaning my shed when I tripped on my patio and fell down hard. At the time, I had been holding clay pots that and they...

COVID’s Spiritual Fatigue When you look up “COVID fatigue” online you discover that it is the symptom of this pandemic that causes a dull...

Solstice and Christmas in a Pandemic 2021 – Solstice is a day I always wait for; it’s a turning point, a hinge moment, each year. The...

2021 When you stand in this drafty season of Advent, the longer you try to stay your course the more the wind picks up – pulling you in...

I know Lent starts today but this Lent is different. It comes after a year of penitence and self-examination. It is hard to find the...

With the arrival of the coronavirus, COVID 19, our society has changed completely; nowhere has that change been more powerfully felt than...