I drove downtown for an appointment today, and while driving in the pouring rain, the state of the city, state, nation and world reminded...

Always, without exception, our world is a mixture of the beautiful and the horrific. I commonly see both child molestation and the wide...

This “social distancing” (SD) thing is one of the greatest inventions of mankind, right up there in company with toilet paper and...

What is it like to be unfamiliar with the warm security of the love of a fellow human? I can’t say for sure, but I imagine it to be like...

The center of my world is my wife and my two sons. The pearl in my world. Outside my family, my world is that I make my living, and most...

I had a dream last night. As I said in my last post, what I am calling the “Hendrix Incident” left my conscience singed from the moment I...

For some time, I have been teaching, coaching, and mediating to help people with conflict resolution. It is easily my favorite service...

I resolve. I’ve never been the enemy of New Year’s Resolutions that some people are. My Dad was vocal about his dislike of this...

What is it like to be unfamiliar with the warm security of the love of a fellow human? I can’t say for sure, but I imagine it to be like...

Call me Gomer. So often, I just can’t figure God out. The books of Job and Hosea make it worse. Oh I get the point of the books, but I...

I’m thankful for my family. No really. I am. I know that sounds trite this time of year, but hear me out. I have seen one too many...

The Third Self Righteous Church of Dunkers & Sprinklers shared Holy Communion this lovely morning. It was a most solemn and reverent...

I turned 50 about a month ago. I have yet to reach an age for which I’m not ready, where I feel like I haven’t accomplished enough for my...

As I think and write tonight I am sitting on the 10th floor of Bay Lake Tower of the Contemporary Resort at Walt Disney World. Out the...

This could be titled Phlegm 3, but I got tired of the nasty connotations of that word. As I have sat at home today, thinking, praying,...

In my last entry, I referred to my present health and career crisis as a storm. I considered and then wrote about how it built up and...

I am a pretty phlegmy, or phlegmatic, guy. I have been for some time. Funny how the two definitions of this word have collided in my...

We tend to project our own insights and motivations into the behavior of others. For example, a politician I know often accuses others of...

I learned some significant lessons recently at an International Religious Freedom Conference in Washington D.C. I was granted the...

genocide. torture. denial of basic human rights based on gender, religion, nationality, perspective, et cetera. Atrocities such as these...