Journals

Ties that bind are an expression used in several ways of communicating that the tie that binds (or the ties that bind) is the shared […]

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d silent pond.Into the pond a frog jumps.Splash! Silence again.” “It is perhaps the best known of all Japanese haiku. No subject could be more […]

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Joan Chittister writes, “Silence is the gift that throws us back on ourselves. Which is exactly why there are so many who cannot bear the […]

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“Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. […]

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Nathaniel Peters writes, “Latin Christians from Tertullian through Bossuet in the seventeenth century recognized curiosity as a disordered appetite for knowledge that we do not […]

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Francois Fenelon (1651-1715) wrote, “Do not fear then, that your past faithlessness must make you unworthy of God’s mercy. Nothing is so worthy of mercy […]

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Frederick Buechner writes, “Dying and dissolution continues to strike fear in me. Death itself does not. Ten years ago if somebody had offered me a […]

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It is Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) the Civil Rights Activist that is credited with coining the phrase, “I am sick and tired of being sick […]

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Jesus said, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up.” That leaves the final sorting of all people and things to […]

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In the Book of 2 Kings in the Old Testament we find the story of Elisha being teased by some teen-aged boys, or young men, […]

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