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The hell if I know. Let's start here: The Hindu prayer goes like this: “Lead me from the unreal to the real.” The story of Lazarus is a step-by-step journey ...

Those old-timey, old fart pastors! An aged parishioner told me that one time when he was a kid, he and a young friend ditched church to go to Woolworth's for...

Just a few days' shy of the end of Black History Month, a four-color poster from Life Dynamics Incorporated came across my desk at church. On the front were ...

Confession: I actually somewhat agreed with an observation made by President Trump the other day. That was a first. You will recall that at the 2020 National...

"The only other sound's the sweep/Of easy wind and downy flake." Maybe you don't recognize the quote. But you probably know this part: "But I have promises t...

A Christmas story for people who are all grown up: The Rev. Stephen Bolden peeled off his gloves and climbed back into his car, cranking up the heat. The wor...

And the angel Gabriel came to Mary and said, ‘Greetings, favoured one! The Lord is with you.’ 29But she was much perplexed by his words and pondered what sor...

Oh, no! It’s that time of year when we have to be grateful again! Last year a reporter from a local news outlet called the church I was serving and asked me ...

The mums are wilted, Halloween is past and we have set back the clocks. Don't even try to tell me you've already adjusted to the darkening-at-four misery tha...

The larger-than-life French writer, Francois Rabalais, is reported to have said on his deathbed, “I am going to see a great Perhaps. Draw the curtain; the fa...

After visiting Barcelona two summers ago, I travelled up the coastal road into France where, quite by accident, I happened to cross the border at a place cal...

In 2013, the German broadcasting network, Deutsche Welle, called Malala Yousefzai "the most famous teen-ager in the world" for her activism for girls' educat...

Writer Adam Phillips wrote Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life in order to explain why the lives we wished to have, but don’t--and probably won’t—shap...

Trust me, I don't want to start this column by quoting Martin Luther because then you will surely stop reading. But--please don't. "What does this mean?" was...

Jesus told them this story: “The farm of a certain rich man produced a terrific crop. The man talked to himself: ‘What can I do? My barn isn’t big enough for...

I had a Fourth of July to make a patriotic soul happy. And I was. I packed us a picnic lunch and we made an early bee-line for Saratoga Springs State Park, a...

Hmmm. I'm not much of a summer-books-beach-reader. I didn't read Fifty Shades of Gray on a camp chair, feet in the sand, an Arnold Palmer in the cup holder. ...

Jo, a servant and follower of Jesus Christ and guided by the Holy Spirit, To Lottie June, a little kid whose brilliant headgear stands as a symbol of how ric...

I don't remember this ever happening before, but Pride and Pentecost are on the same weekend this year. Pride and Pentecost--wow! Pentecost is that celebrati...

Scheherazade, I heard a radio host say the other day, was an advocate for women. How's that again, I thought? Scheherazade was the fictional consort of the k...