I sang the carols and lit the candles. We deferred our big family gathering for a week to accommodate a…
Tim Van DeelenJanuary 5, 2023
As we all know, Christmas is first among all holidays because of the central role that deer (reindeer) play in…
Tim Van DeelenDecember 8, 2022
If you are still reading this and haven’t contributed, you are among the procrastinators and wafflers in our online community.…
Tim Van DeelenDecember 1, 2022
Fall is a series of seasons. September glows warm. October slips and becomes cold with convictions. One hard freeze and…
Tim Van DeelenNovember 17, 2022
It hurt when I first saw video of young climate activists throwing tomato soup on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting in…
Tim Van DeelenNovember 3, 2022
A canoe from 1000 years before Christ. Three thousand years of under-ice darkness every winter and late summer algae blooms.
Tim Van DeelenOctober 20, 2022
Creation itself is included in the crucifixion/resurrection narrative. We model Christ when we practice a “self-emptying.”
Tim Van DeelenSeptember 29, 2022
It’s been raining for three days, and I am walking the Six-Mile path on the way home from church.
Tim Van DeelenSeptember 15, 2022
My day’s highlight was lunch with a former grad student. We caught up on her classmates and mutual friends, departmental…
Tim Van DeelenSeptember 1, 2022
