How do we live a full life?  What is that manner of life which leaves the world a better place? My answer to these two questions is based on two fundamental beliefs: Character matters God becomes incarnate in human lives...

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...

Markings, my notes on the Bible, is now available on this site for your use.  (The New Testament section is current while the Hebrew Scriptures section is still under construction.) This resource began as a set of 3″x5″ cards more...

I love words.  I love their form and feel, their shape and size, their tone and taste and texture.  I love the way they adapt and transform and move; words adapt to new situations even as they adapt our thinking;...

I’m intrigued by the game “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.”  I’ve never played it, and I doubt that I’d be any good at it since I’m not a movie buff.  But the underlying assumption is interesting:  there are no more...

Welcome to a new blog!  This post is an introduction.  There are some previous posts as I was trying to get my thoughts together.  Check some of them out after reading this one. With this blog, I invite you to...