Category: Pastors’ Letters

A writer recently paraphrased Susan Sontag and said that “biography is the revenge of research upon the intellect.” What she meant is that biography takes a lived life—a human existence …

I was thinking recently about the phrase, “accident of birth.” The moral philosopher Martha Nussbaum referred to it in the following paragraph: “All human beings are worthy of equal respect …

“I just can’t make up my mind!” How often have you said those words or heard someone else say them to you? Difficult decisions can be small or large. It …

Welcome to January 2022! There is so much energy around celebrating the holidays in the month of December that we often forget to extend the same sentiments to its successor, …

Let’s raise a toast to the “ordinary”! Having gone through months of what have been extraordinary events, there is something special about the plain ol’ ordinary. Routines that don’t change …

Every so often I read a sentence that stops me in my tracks. Here is the opening line from a book review: In the deep sea, it is always night …

In telling the story of Jesus’ life and death, it had to be awkward to acknowledge that Peter, the lead disciple, publicly disowned Christ in a moment of weakness. Or …

Back in the 1940s, John Gunther traveled all across America and published a bestseller called Inside U.S.A. He was a reporter with an eye for the unusual details that make …

Where do your emotions reside? Are they things in your head or things you feel in your heart and gut? For most of us, it is likely a combination of …

Everybody loves a good volunteer. You know the person I’m talking about—that one volunteer who is dependable, quick with a smile or to ask “What do you want me to …