Joy to the (sub-atomic) world
The holiday season is upon us, and 2020 has been rough. If you are anything like me, you have spent this year in a...
Living resurrection power
When living in Spain, we were overwhelmed with the attention given to Easter week. Elaborate religious processions winding through the streets and avenues of...
The day we became friends with God
Maundy Thursday is the day in the Christian year when we enter into the Upper Room on the night that Jesus was betrayed to...
Blue Christmas
Blue Christmas" is more than a holiday song famously performed by Elvis Presley. Blue Christmas, sometimes also called the Longest Night, is a day...
God’s Christmas graffiti
On the eve of Christmas, speaking at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., at the dawn of a new millennium, Archbishop Desmond Tutu used...
Filling—and fulfilling—feasts
Here we go again—all those Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner gatherings! While there are the unfortunate few who long to be part of just one...
Roadside assistance
I love the 2006 comedy film RV starring Robin Williams. The film tells the story of Bob Munro (played by Williams) taking his family...
Home for the holidays
I was so looking forward to our first Christmas as a married couple. Decorating our apartment, shopping for gifts, baking my favorite Christmas goodies...