Today is dies cinerum (day of ashes), which we now refer to as Ash Wednesday. It is the first day of a forty-day Lenten season (also known as Lent) leading up to Easter Sunday. Typically, this is known as a … Continue reading
This Christmas, I directed our church’s annual Christmas pageant. Notice that I don’t say, “I volunteered to direct our church’s annual Christmas pageant,” because I didn’t. How I came to head up this massive production is still unclear to me. … Continue reading
Today, while most of us hurry to fulfill our daily to-do lists of making it on time to class, clocking in at work, buying groceries or dropping kids off at school, a million people will gather in Washington D.C because … Continue reading
I remember reading a story when I was a child where someone comes upon his friends and tells them, “I just saw the best thing in the whole wide world!” They follow where he is pointing and they go and … Continue reading
Every day my job enables me to witness humanity in its most refined state: children picking their noses, chewing their sleeves into a slobbery mess, excommunicating their friends and then playing with them the next day, and girls awkwardly hiding … Continue reading