Facebook and Twitter: those are social media platforms I mostly use. LinkedIn – I have an account, but don’t find it very helpful for my work. While my younger friends all use Instagram, I haven’t gotten on to it. Perhaps that’s because I don’t take many pictures, either of myself… Read More »It’s an Ordinary Life
I’ve heard it said repeatedly in the last week: “This is not who we are.” But clearly, it is who we are. Denying the reality of it doesn’t make it go away. The opposite is true: the only way to get past the division is to recognize it, face it,… Read More »Healing the Nation: A Call to a Change of Heart and Mind
Ending the Christmas season is the celebration of the Epiphany. It marks the arrival of astrologers who followed a star to find the Christ. They believed that the rising of a new star marked a significant event, so they followed the star to find out what this event might be.… Read More »January 6: The Epiphany (or the Manifestation) of the Christ
Out with the old and in with the new. The old year, 2020, was difficult for many people. Well, surely that’s an understatement! The pandemic and political upheaval have left many people in grief, facing uncertainty, isolation, distrusting of not only the government but of other people, as well as… Read More »Remembering 2020 and the Road to 2021
The Christmas holiday is here. As the old standard conveys, “It’s the most wonderful time of the year!” Around the world, Christmas festivities are bold and bright as people sing and spread good cheer. But this year, in the midst of a global pandemic, Christmas is just not the same… Read More »Practical and Wise: Joseph and Christmas 2020
I follow the news pretty closely. Thanks to online websites, I follow about ten news sites every day, many from outside of the US. I like to be informed. But staying informed comes at a price. Much of the news from around the world is not hopeful. I don’t need… Read More »Keeping Christ in Christmas: It’s All About You
How can things go so badly? I suspect most people have asked a question like that during 2020. There are the pandemic and the cascade of problems that have come with it like economic hardship, unemployment, disruption of education from pre-K through university life, businesses closing offices with people now… Read More »The Christmas Story and 2020
It’s an experience many of us have had this past year. For me, the process took about a week. I found the website for my state listing all of the testing centers. Each center had a separate link with different hours of operations and appointments available. It took me about… Read More »Waiting
