You are Stressing Out the Connector!

A couple of weeks ago at one of my son’s basketball games I came up with a plan for world peace. Well, I’m going to test it at the little league sports level first, but I totally think its going to work. We have a player on our team who is kind of tall for a 5th grader (my son, by the way, is a 3rd grader but the team needed to recruit in the lower grades to have enough players) and he can get rather...

Walter Brueggemann on Friday

Have you read Walter Brueggemann? I’ve just been introduced, but what I’ve read so far is very challenging. I’m reading from a collection of prayers from the book Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth: Prayers of Walter Brueggeman, edited by Edwin Searcy . This piece opens with the traditional refrain, “Thank God It’s Friday!” and continues with a list of reasons we do so: we are ready...

Breakfast with Macy

There is nothing better than starting your day with this simple reminder: Breakfast with Macy from Felicity White on...

You May Wonder How This is Related . . .

I should wax eloquent today on the brilliance of Martin Luther King, Jr. In round-a-bout way, I will. I have read few pieces as moving as his “I Have a Dream” speech or his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” He knew how to put his faith to work and inspired a nation with his passion. Saturday night Jesse gathered up the girls and read to them from a picture book that tells the story of the...

Internet, I Have Bought Your Soul For God!

This is probably one of my favorite literary lines. It is spoken by the good bishop to Victor Hugo’s character Jean Valjean in Les Miserables. After the convict has stolen from him, instead of pressing charges with the authorities, the bishop pretends that he has freely given Valjean the silver from his home. When questioned, he convincingly claims he had also intended for Valjean to take the candlesticks. As...