Where the Heart Reaches Home

Where the Heart Reaches Home

A lifeguard may save you from drowning. A firefighter may save you from the flames of a burning house. An organ donor’s donation may save your life in the loss of theirs. Adoptive parents may rescue you from a less-than-desirable orphanage situation. These, and other...
Deeper, Wider, Richer, Fuller

Deeper, Wider, Richer, Fuller

In the past several decades, the Church has been dragged through unthinkable circumstances because of those whose spiritual leadership ended in scandal and courtroom drama and even prison time. It’s been devastating to hear lurid details of once-revered leaders as the...
Something Greater than Cilantro 

Something Greater than Cilantro 

If you have more than a hundred words to say in a day (like me, for instance) you have likely said, ‘I love ______(fill in the blank)’ many times in many contexts. That expression is used for anything from anchovies to zoology. My suspicion is that the rest of...
The Subject Beyond

The Subject Beyond

It would have been of great help to me. I kept hearing about the wonders of it and got more curious as time went along. People were sleeping with textbooks under their pillows, others slept with the textbook on tape, playing in their ears as they slept, plus other,...
Things I learned in kindergarten

Things I learned in kindergarten

“Good morning, Church!” said no one ever when I was young. Church was a noun, as in ‘the building.’ It was where you went on Sunday. ‘The church is at the corner of 5th and Walnut.’ It was also an adjective, as in, you had a church wedding. You had a church...