“Is it nothing to all of you who pass this way? Look! See, if there’s any suffering like my suffering…” (Lamentation 1.12). The author Connie Willis, in her collection of Christmas stories, introduced me to Auden’s “For the Time Being.”… Read moreThe Time Being

My wife’s eighty-seven year old aunt passed away recently, and we, along with her brother and mother made the three hour drive to Alabama for the funeral beneath the sunny skies and bare trees of January. And amidst seventies and… Read moreAnything at all?

“From the fig tree, understand this illustration: when a branch grows tender and begins to sprout leaves, you know the summer is near” (Mark 13.28). There’s a tree right outside my office window. It’s a source of a lot of… Read moreBare

“For right now, we see through cloudy glass…” (1 Corinthians 13.12a). If you had to guess, when would you think Earth is closest to the sun? Believe it or not, our journey around the sun isn’t a perfect circle, meaning… Read morePerihelion