Fun'n'games in the Kingdom of God

There is an old vaudeville joke about a man and woman dancing together at a singles resort in the Catskills. The man says, “I’m only here fo...

Once, I rode the Auto Train between Florida and Virginia. As the overnight ride was drawing to a close, a father was trying to help his very...

Pop-quiz, sports fans: what is the longest parable in all of the Gospels? Yup, that’s right, it’s the one I just read: the Jesus-story usual...

Updated March 3, 2025 from an earlier post and column published on May 17, 2022 Don’t you wish sometimes that you could just gather up all t...

This is an anxious time to be a preacher in the United States. Over the past few weeks, I have been cautioned from various quarters from bei...

A sermon for the Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany, Year C Whenever I hear the reading from Isaiah 6 that we just heard… you know, the one beg...

It is said that in some cultures and in some places, the taking of a photograph is thought to take away a piece of the soul of the subject. ...