How food and identity are intertwined in Cristina Garcia?s Dreaming in Cuban.
On loving and leaving the perfect coffeehouse.
How true love meets guilt and shame one fateful, folk-filled evening.
A coffeehouse in Sheboygan, Wisconsin serves locals with more than just delicious treats.
Will a place to lay my head ever materialize?
On having the courage to choose our own adventures.
What does it mean to have no fear in the flock of the Shepherd?
A review of Dark Age Ahead by Jane Jacobs.
A sermon for the choir on transforming cynicism.
The worship debate is more complex than ?traditional vs. contemporary? music. What guidance do we have for meaningful worship?
An inadequate attempt to capture in words the working of the Spirit in music.
A shorter catechism addressing seven big questions about music in God?s world.
Some words about conscious personal care for women, with a warning to those who faint at the thought of seeing The Vagina Monologues.
What the world teaches us about the labels we place on ourselves.
A walk around the neighborhood leads to the threshold of a timeless place.
On the journey from a place of worry to a place of contentment.
Sometimes our neighbor really is the person right across the lane.
Why we should do these things anyway.
On moving to Europe to escape the necessity of a car.
On chilling about cholesterol and becoming thankful for food.
A review of Hotel Rwanda.
Reflections on a walk worth the suffering.
A review of Mirah TomYov Zeitlyn & Ginger Brooks Takahashi's Songs from the Black Mountain Music Project
On cultivating an appropriate attitude toward cleaning up life?s messes.
A review of Sexual Character: Beyond Technique to Intimacy by Marva J. Dawn.
A hand-me-down table was just the beginning?
A collection of impressions of what happened when a Philadelphia Presbyterian church opened its doors to an artists-in-residence program.
Reflection on experiences that flow between the community and the self.
For reasons of bad theology to bad taste, sometimes it?s easier to flee than fight.
An interview with Larry Edward Kamphausen, member of the Community of the Holy Trinity and pastor at the Church of Jesus Christ, Reconciler in Chicago.