Faith, Fiction, Friends

Poet   Dan Rattelle   reminds us that there is more to the idea of “place” than geographic location. In   The Commonwealth , a chapbook of 2...

After Acts 4:23-31 Surrounded by evil and destruction, the people gathered  together, seeking the safety of oneness and t...

After Acts 4:23-31 The words went up, a psalm, a song, voices together creating a current moving through and upward, th...

A general consensus exists among Americans, including church-going Americans, that the “church” in America is in serious decline. The m...

After John 17: 20-23 What is more beautiful: the stained glass or the light that shines through it? What is more importan...

After John 17:20-23 They will know who we are, by our love; we know and understand that, we have for a long time.  But ther...

After II Corinthians 2:5-11 What is this body, this community, this group, we collectively call the church, the meeting, th...

The church had never quite had a short-term mission team like this one. A chemist. A retired engineer. And a PR guy / writer. Ou...

The Apostle Paul wrote 14 or 15 epistles to various churches (the precise depends upon the author of Hebrews, believed to be Paul but n...

A barbershop in a small town is less about the cutting of hair and more about community, one of those places where people (usually men)...

Last weekend, I was suffering a combination bad head cold/allergic reaction to the Valentine’s Day flowers I bought for my wife. (No, ...