Ash Wednesday:  For those who find—or once found—comfort, inspiration, or challenge in the ritual of familiar church liturgy, and those of us who were nurtured in Christian churches that are not in the liturgical tradition, and even those with little or no background in church life, many of us know that on this day—all over…

In my previous blog about “the seed, the soils, and the sower,” there was a sentence, when I was making my point about my interpretation of the parable, which said in part “. . . . there must be a connection to human need, such that where our hearts go in compassion, our hands and…