“Why get involved in that?” “Is that really a role for a minister?” “Shouldn’t you just stay in your lane?” These questions come up often in my life. Some of…
Life on Earth was a hard, mostly rural, wearying slog for centuries, and technological advances were made at a stately pace of one or two major changes in any given…
I was recently pursuing a regional online news site and noticed a bold headline about a homicide in McCandless. A 38 year-old man was shot and killed in the lush…
Santa Rosa, CA/USA - 3/6/19: Gordon Lightfoot (front and center) performs at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts. A Canadian singer-songwriter in folk, folk-rock, and country music. Like many…
One of the reasons I can’t stand the cavalier use of cries of racism when something doesn’t go a person’s way is because it can serve as an easy excuse…
In this oddly hyper-sensitive era where so many things are determined by how folks feel about something, the ground is fertile for bad information, rumor, innuendo and the confident settling…
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…