Advent: Reflecting Upon a Caravan to Bethlehem

12.02.2018 ________________________________________ Today, according to the Christian calendar, is the first Sunday of Advent, the season observed in many Christian Continue reading →

The Fruit Of the Righteous Is A Tree Of Life

11.04.2018 ________________________________________ On July 2, 2016, Donald Trump tweeted a picture of Hillary Clinton as the “Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!” Continue reading →

Today, Let Our Jackets Read: I Really Care. Don’t You?

06.24.2018 ________________________________________  When I arrived in the Middle East in 1968 one of my early assignments was to go to Continue reading →

On Father’s Day Ask: Where Are The Children?

06.17.2018 ________________________________________ In Genesis we are told that when Abraham saw three men standing near him and, unaware they were Continue reading →

Re-light the Lamp Beside the Golden Door

09.05.2015 _____________________ Labor Day, when I was growing up, was both the time that heralded return to school (in those Continue reading →