Gosh. Has it been two weeks? Yes, I think so. Two weeks since I last reported on various efforts around the creating or re-creating of community around the COVID-19 pandemic ( Read more... )

So, the events of the last couple of weeks seem to highlight an eternal question among young Christians: Which comes first, the quest for a personal Savior or, the quest for a personal sex partner? I know from being friends with VRaptor that, at least in his case, the one seemed to inform the other. I have to believe that his ability to pray so ( Read more... )

I know, it's been about three weeks since Fall began, but it's worth taking some time to look back on the season just before. It began with a recognition that had begun to take hold during the Spring, that this would be the 10th anniversary of that year that Uncle Curtis - almost on a whim - suggested I rent his late brother's old house across the ( Read more... )

This trip was in the making for about six years. It was stemmed from the very first excursion planned by the old twenties/thirties group and when I missed the train. The cascading embarassment and humiliation was a watershed event in my life. From it, I 1) went out and bought my first cell phone, 2) always tried to have a good pair of hiking shoes ( Read more... )

I had a dream about Reese Witherspoon early this morning. I immediately shut the alarm in order to get back into it. But, it didn't work, that is to say, I never got back to the dream ( Read more... )

Church started early this morning. Not the Mass. Not the hymns and prayers. That started at their normal time of ten o'clock ( Read more... )

Allen sent me this piece ( Read more... )