It’s a bit of a crazy time to be posting this on the day after Christmas with the New Year approaching—better than Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, I suppose—but, since it’s the final installment, I’ll just put it “out there” for whenever you have nothing better to do. With apologies for that—as well as for…

An Unintended and Unexpected Prologue My intent was to complete these reflections about community and end on a positive note, but unfortunately, as you know, between the time I started writing and today, the Texas Attorney General brought to the Supreme Court a case for overturning/ invalidating the election results in 4 states that Biden…

In the spirit of full disclosure—and illustrative of the pervasiveness that this title suggests—in “a former life,” I first addressed this topic in a sermon in June of 1973, having gotten the idea from a sermon by Harry Emerson Fosdick in his anthology, Riverside Sermons, published in 1958, although the sermon originally appeared in an…

My previous post ended by bringing up a topic that I’ll call simply “shrinking time”—to be together with Cathy, my wife and best friend; shrinking time to be with my children and grandchildren; shrinking time to be with my three “oldest” friends as well as with all the friends that I value; shrinking time simply…