GAINS & GLEANINGS | There’s more in store than you could imagine
About 20 years ago, I dropped my friend Robert Bradshaw off in New London, Connecticut for a class at the Navy Chaplain School prior to his commissioning as a naval… Read more.
GAINS & GLEANINGS | When normal ain’t normal anymore what then?
The term “new normal” gained traction in 2009 when then President Barack Obama used it in an attempt to lower economic expectations on the heels of the 2008 Read more.
Strange expectations from the ‘moral majority’
In the 1980s, the political landscape of America was very much influenced by a self-proclaimed religious group, led by famed televangelist Jerry Falwell, called Read more.
It’s a great idea but the question remains, is it working?
There are a lot of ideas we wish would work. It would be lovely if they would, and many of them are peaceful, uplifting, non-judgmental, and seemingly forward-leaning, Read more.
How goes the war? Wanted: A time machine or church communities that actually evangelize
“How goes the war?” my friend Lee asked as he shook my hand and gave me a hug outside of the coffee shop. Lee is an admirer of the work… Read more.
Bleeding and living green and white over the long haul
Ken Hohman (middle) at the prayer vigil for Damar Hamlin at Sto-Rox High School. The headline, tucked inside the paper like most news coming from run-of-the-mill Read more.
Franco’s Army mourns: We lost a good one
The news was every bit the shock as the loss of another Pittsburgh Hall of Fame sports hero when Pirates legend Willie Stargell died right on the cusp of being celebrated Read more.
The gift is yours to share at Christmas and throughout the year
Christmas is upon us again. I always get excited for this season. I always look with wonder at the birth of Christ. The arrival of Jesus at the scandalous intersection… Read more.
The kind of wind that cuts right through you
I heard Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” on the radio over Thanksgiving weekend, while my family was in Detroit visiting my wife’s Read more.
Remembering Terry Stubbs, a one of a kind local legend
I was in Kentucky when I got the word. My lifelong friend Terry was gone. Details were few, but I assumed it was likely a gran mal seizure that took… Read more.