Blog Can’t you read the Signs? I'm a sucker for highway signs. Wall Drug, Ruby Falls, Mail Pouch, Burma Shave . . . a well done…Jeff MunroeJanuary 5, 2014
Blog Sentimental Christmas In one of the first entries of Preparing for Christmas, an Advent devotional by Father Richard Rohr, there is a…Jeff MunroeDecember 23, 2013
Blog Mandela and Zeeland On February 11, 1990, I was teaching an adult education class in Zeeland, Michigan. No, I do not have some…Jeff MunroeDecember 9, 2013
Blog Never Enough This fading picture is of my mother and her three sons, from about 1966. It was in the boxes of…Jeff MunroeNovember 25, 2013
Blog Is Mary Jane Coming to Church? Three cities in my home state of Michigan decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana in last week’s elections (following…Jeff MunroeNovember 11, 2013
Blog The Wrong Stuff I was raised a space cadet in the 1960s, part of a generation absorbed and obsessed with astronauts and the…Jeff MunroeOctober 28, 2013
Blog What Congress is Teaching the Church Here’s a short lesson in Providence. I had an idea about tying in the mess in DC with seemingly intractable…Jeff MunroeOctober 3, 2013
Blog Feeling like a Pair of Brown Loafers in a Black Tuxedo World (In which I try to tell fellow introverts to be themselves.) A short while after I started working at Western…Jeff MunroeSeptember 30, 2013
Blog On Owning the 14-Year Olds and Why Miley Matters After a long day of driving we stopped for the night in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and decided to see a…Jeff MunroeSeptember 16, 2013
Blog Why “42” Left Me Flat Thanks to Redbox, I finally saw 42, Brian Helgeland’s feel good story of Jackie Robinson breaking baseball’s “color line.” …Jeff MunroeSeptember 2, 2013