Deuteronomy 10:12-22:                        We are called to treat kindly the foreigner. In the past, the U.S. has done a lot of caring for strangers and have often given them chances to belong and contribute to our country. Please help us continue to welcome strangers, those we are privileged… Read More »

            Deuteronomy 3:21-29:             Like a lot of good workers, Moses didn’t want to quit. But he had finished what God had for him to do, and it was now time to give over the job to another, younger man. Our talents and usefulness are according to what God gives us. We leave to others… Read More »

Lately, I’ve been rethinking my feelings about the American Revolution. What if we had lost that war? Presumably, we would have remained a part of the British empire. We would have remained a part of the empire that began abolishing slavery in the early 1800’s. We didn’t abolish it until a horrible Civil War in… Read More »

            I honestly don’t remember if I voted for Ronald Reagan for president or not. I do remember watching some clips of Reagan telling jokes and laughing, including laughing at himself.             As serious as is the office of U.S. president, having a president who can laugh, even at jokes about himself (or, eventually, perhaps,… Read More »

Recently, two pictures caught my attention: one from a London subway shelter in World War II, another from a Kyiv subway in 2023, Both sets of citizens obviously awaited an all clear to resume their lives. Both called forth a similar respect for ordinary people surviving efforts to subjugate them. Other than picturing more people… Read More »

“The good that emerges from a conflict of values cannot arise from the total condemnation or destruction of one set of values, but only from the building of a new value, sustained, like an arch, by the tension of the original two.,’ Dorothy L. Sayers; The Mind of the Maker

                       What a collection of Christians in Rome to whom Paul wrote his letter. All kinds of people, men and women, different nationalities, etc. What a great, myriad group of Christians. As Christian groups today still are.             Eventually, God did crush the Roman persecutors under His feet. Eventually, Rome… Read More »