Where Is God in All This?

At this writing, there are 1.5 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 worldwide and 89,915 deaths, including 434,861 confirmed U.S. cases and 14,814 U.S. deaths. I won’t go into the economic ...

Satisfied with Your Life?

As a seminary student in my 20s, my friend, Gerald Waris, and I used part of the money we earned working in a brewery to take a summer’s-end trip to ...

Why Faith is Not Conformism

I’m a bit of a hoarder. Not in the usual sense, because I’m almost anal in keeping things neat and clean. No, I hoard books, articles and bits and pieces ...

Using the Time on Our Hands

Dealing with the pandemic and all the closures of entertainment venues, the main story in the weekly entertainment section of our local newspaper was entitled, “100 Things to Do While ...

Voices Crying in the Wilderness

My friend, Lori Chesser, an immigration lawyer, writes about the complexities of the immigration system (which many say is no system at all) in a recent issue of Living City, ...

Cleaving to a Vengeful God

Dear God, Instead of letting people die and having to make new ones, why don’t you just keep the ones you have now?  Jane An excellent question, you might say, ...