Union, Trueheart, and Courtesy

An erstwhile, lately abandoned, but now existentially necessary compendium of wonderful things. Lest we forget. @Dog_rates "The ...

It's a strange start to the semester, in many ways. This year's election has been surreal; we all swim through its constant downward...

It's halfway through the summer. I'm in the middle of writing a book (the volume on the theology of the human being for the Homebrew...

On these recent summer nights, our household has been arranging itself as follows: Noel and I in the living room, watching TV, working, knit...

I always watched Wide World of Sports. It was a Sunday afternoon ritual. Jim McKay, Howard Cosell, those yellow blazers, and whatever random...

I always appreciate the way that Noel tries to make Mother's Day both special for me, and not actively annoying to me. He gets the kids ...

Most parents will tell you that part of anticipating a child coming into the family is looking forward to sharing one's culture. And pop...

While walking to the office today I was congratulating myself on making it to the end of the school year. The summer, much longed for in the...

Last Friday was a very full day. I served as a moderator for a half-dozen senior thesis presentations, then had a short break before deliver...

2015 was not a great year, in a lot of ways, for a lot of people. Aside from my friends and acquaintances who've suffered setbacks or lo...

I preached on these texts  (Track 1) yesterday at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Conway. What a lovely correspondence they had to my ge...

National attention has been focused for the last few decades on the effort to create meaningful standards for K-12 education. In recent year...

I find myself with 30 minutes and no obvious task pressing itself upon me, demanding to get done. Next week is a short one, only three days ...

When I'm working on a book, I naturally sometimes picture it on a shelf, in a bookstore, on a conference display table, in a reader'...