Jo Page

Before I became a pastor, I worked for a couple of magazines. So I am used to thinking about Valentine's Day at Thanksgiving, shamrocks...

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...

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...

During our Zoom meeting this morning, a colleague the told story of how one of her parishioners was out of onions. She said her husband...

Elizabeth Warren ended her campaign just a couple of days before International Women's Day--ironically also the first day of Daylight...

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...

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

"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:...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...