The Man on the Lawn
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 Posted in writing | Comments Off on The Man on the LawnThere’s a major city street that runs through the middle of the university at which I work, and yesterday evening I was out walking when I saw two of the university’s Public Safety vehicles parked at the curb and several ...
‘Tis the Season
Thursday, August 28th, 2008 Posted in writing | Comments Off on ‘Tis the SeasonIt’s the political season, when America finds itself awash in high blown rhetoric and low down trickery. Some people are so put off by the political process that they ignore the whole thing, but that’s hard to do since the ...
Insider/Outsider
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 Posted in writing | Comments Off on Insider/OutsiderInsider and outsider are two common ways that people think of themselves and others. It seems a natural human trait that we define ourselves by who we admit into our lives and who we keep out. Sometimes the walls that ...
Sometimes the Storm Is Us
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 Posted in writing | Comments Off on Sometimes the Storm Is UsIn the fourteenth chapter of Matthew’s gospel, the disciples find themselves out in the storm, buffeted by wind and waves, not sure who is the figure they see in the lightning illuminated darkness. They think it’s a ghost but ...
Firm Foundations
Friday, August 1st, 2008 Posted in writing | Comments Off on Firm FoundationsThis past week, newspapers reported that Radovan Karadzic had been turned over to the war crimes tribunal in the Netherlands, where he will be tried for, among other things, masterminding the slaughter of 8,000 men and boys in Srberenica in ...
