Some while ago, not sure when, Facebook started embedding a feature called “Reels” into people’s news feeds.   These are seemingly random video clips usually lasting

COVID found its way into my body last week for the first time (at least that I know of).  Probably a national gathering of folks

The MDiv senior students in my two sections of the Capstone Integrative Seminar are gearing up to take their Oral Comprehensive Exams next week and

It’s an odd day.  Today, that is.  Depending on to whom you talk, today is “Mardi Gras” or “Fat Tuesday.”  But you might also hear

Growing up in the 60s, 70s, and 80s I was always aware of Johnny Carson and “The Tonight Show.”  Like maybe a lot of kids,

If you are Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, or a writer for Saturday Night Live, George Santos is your meal ticket of the moment.  He’s low

One of my pastors preached a sermon from John 6 Sunday on Jesus’s well-known statement “I am the bread of life.”  He reminded us at

Just what is this period, this interregnum, between Christmas and Epiphany?  Is there a focus biblically?  Lectionaries often opt for the slaughter of the innocents

This past Saturday my colleague Deb Rienstra had an excellent reflection on a different way to observe Advent from the wastelands of life all around