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Prayers (and presence) for the bleeding stranger 24 Aug 2013 | 06:23 pm
After reading about the solving of the Fr. Dowling mystery, I started to wonder what other clergy would do if confronted with a situation where someone was lying hurt by the side of the road. Heck, wh...
Faith, miracles and the 'Mystery Priest": better at the end than at the beginning 15 Aug 2013 | 08:25 am
By now many of you have read about the man in the black shirt and white collar (not a black collar, as some reported with a hint of eeriness) who showed up at a terrible accident in Missouri this mont...
S....f guys say online...and what it might be saying about us 12 Aug 2013 | 10:46 pm
"You are a very beautiful woman." Uhh hunh. I thanked him. While I'm not buying the KoolAid, one of my rules online is: be polite when someone compliments you. Whether in the dating arena, basemen...
Gay marriage -- a local point of view 11 Aug 2013 | 07:46 pm
My column for the Lancaster papers on how pastors and other leaders are grappling with the American public's upward trending support for gay marriage. One, the Rev. Geoff Kohler, is talking about our ...
Lake Ninevah: Dreams from my father (and mother) 10 Aug 2013 | 06:31 pm
If I'd thought about it at all, as a child, I would have figured that there were two places New Yorkers went on vacation-- Long Island (Sag Harbor, Shelter Island, the North Shore, the Hamptons befor...
Gay marriage and the evangelical hinge 8 Aug 2013 | 10:35 pm
I love the idea that we live in "hinged" moments...that there is a whole reality about to unfold just beyond our line of sight. Thus the conversation about sexuality engages me at the same time that...
How to be the classier person in a déclassé online world 3 Aug 2013 | 10:20 pm
This past week I participated in derailing a serious conversation my son was having on Facebook. It became just another ventfest for people voicing their usual positions, another round of blah, blah,...
Why people of faith aren't staying, and why they aren't starting 1 Aug 2013 | 09:16 am
Over the past week, there's been a ton of "water-cooler" conversation over why Millennials (read: twentysomethings with a bit of thirty tossed in) are leaving the church. Rachel Held Evans got it star...
Review of 'The Light in the Ruins' by Chris Bohjalian 28 Jul 2013 | 05:07 pm
I gotta tell ya -- I usually avoid books featuring a lot of violent events like the plague. As someone who is sensitive to nuance and detail in life (as a journalist one becomes trained to ream it up...
As gay marriage gains support, what's going on with people of faith? 27 Jul 2013 | 04:46 pm
A day or so after the Supreme Courts' momentous decision in the DOMA case, I spoke to a professor of mine who is a lesbian (her partner addressed our class). The move to allow, if not affirm, gay ma...
