I have been accused of being a deep-diving duck.  My wife accused me of this, in different words, only yesterday. I like to dive down to the depths of things, in both the literal and the metaphorical senses. As a...

When I write or when I speak I want people to listen and to think.  That is going to be particularly difficult for me this coming Sunday as I present Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount from memory in the worship...

What does it mean to have faith?  How can we begin to think and talk about faith in a way that keeps the conversation going? One of the difficulties of answering this question popped up in an essay which Richard Rohr...

Each morning, our dog and I go for a walk.  We take the same route, through a neighborhood of small houses with even smaller yards.  After a couple hundred of these walks I am still noticing new things. There are...