Today we will consider the snow pile at the end of my driveway. These days you may have one too. In all likelihood, you know how the snow pile got there, at the end of the driveway, but just in…

On Tuesday morning I looked up from the plank position I had been holding and saw a dolphin. And then another dolphin. Just their dorsal fins arcing up and out of the water, then disappearing, then cresting again. Twenty-four hours…

“What are the ashes about?"The question was sincere. My church has never done Ash Wednesday before -- at least not with ashes, anyway. And so as we began announcing that we’d be offering the imposition of ashes for the first…

A C-SPAN video has gone viral (how often can you say that!?).  It was shot Friday morning outside the White House where First Lady Jill Biden and her husband—along with the dogs Champ and Major—were taking a walk.  The First…

Among the younger folk, ‘ghosting’ refers to a sudden and immediate cessation of all communication toward a person, digitally, physically, and on social media. Frankly, this seems like an incredibly immature way to deal with most relationships, but I suppose…

Prayer is difficult in a technological age like ours. Our minds have been shaped by the efficiency, quantification, objectivity of the computer. We value precision and clear answers. Prayer defies all of those things. And so we ask, “does prayer…

Let’s test your reflexes, shall we? Oh. Oh my. Are you feeling numbness or tingling in your extremities? Um. I guess I’m kind of feeling numbness everywhere.

If the place sounds cliche-ish, you can't blame Garretson, SD, because doggone it, not every Siouxland burg has a tourist trap built in. Seriously, Garretson's is big-time: Jesse James was there. He was. Not some lousy impersonator. The. Real. Jesse…