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Sageness in the Canyon Landscape of Prickles, Songbirds, and Sunlight
February 22, 2015 When I am in southern California I take a few hours and walk a canyon. On the backside of two weeks of traveling and meetings, I finally found myself walking a southern California canyon on a Saturday morning. Entering the north-south canyon before sunrise, I hoped to hear the canyon awaken as…
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How Do We Talk About Our Unpeopling A People?
February 15, 2015 Last fall I came across an article about a partnership between Disciples Center for Public Justice (Center) and Disciple Home Ministries (DHM). In this article the author wrote, This…ministry deals with such diverse issues and concerns as criminal justice reform, human trafficking, gun violence, capital punishment, and the rights of Native Americans…
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An Old Word to Honor and A Modern Word “That’s For the Birds”
February 8, 2015 “That’s for the birds,” has an interesting undertones these days. The avian influenza, a highly contagious and deadly virus is ramping up across the countryside. Who knew that when the flu rolled out this year, we’d be talking bird flu rather than should we have gotten our flu shot or not. For…
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It’s All A Little Foggy, But Let Me Remember
February 01, 2015 As January slips away so does my patience with fog. After weeks of fog, along with knowing a sunny blue sky is a hundred or two feet above, and because February can hold more fog ahead, my patience is normally wanting. So I am surprised to find my patience fairly intact at…
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How The Young Are Taught The True Celebratory Holiday
January 25, 2015 Sunday January 18: Seahawks vs. Green Bay Morning, eleven thirty, driving through town. Oddly few cars on the road. Everyone must be with family and friends. Waiting for the game to begin. Businesses are closed. Except for the grocery store, the new Buffalo Wings, the new Dave’s BBQ, and McDonalds Monday January…
Chewing the Cud 