When our oldest was in pre-school, we moved out to the country, and with all this space, he begged us to get an elephant.

"I'm taking good care of Froggy!" our earnest child would say, because care of an African clawed frog and care of an...

I remember July 7, 2005, when an acquaintance of mine, Colin Morley, was killed on the Tube, Edgware Road in London, by a suicide bomber. I remember the horror of it. The bomb had nails packed into it so when it exploded, it would do as much damage and maiming...

God of all, in all, through all,
we, clinging to the safe shores of our understanding,
we believe You work in time.
Believers and non-believers alike argue about how You
intervene in time or if You do?
We ask now, Your Presence, in...

God of All,

As we look to the past, we remember a day when towers fell, and buildings blew apart, a day when hatred seemed to have the final say, and we as a country were amazed at our own "failure of imagination." Let us recall that day, and make...

Twenty-five years ago, I worked in Walsall, England, in the West Midlands, near Birmingham. Birmingham is a city known for many things, including having the largest Sikh gudwara outside of India.

In Walsall, in Caldmore (called "Karma"), I worked with countless Sikh families and experienced...

It's been a hard week as a parent. Interesting, given school is almost out, but there it is. As author Mary Wollstonecraft said, "For years I have endeavored to calm an impetuous tide, laboring to make my feelings take an orderly course, it was striving against the stream."...

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"...all the ends of the earth shall remember"--Psalm 22:27

On October 11th and October 13th, I can tell you what was going on at 10:45am and 8:30am, and on December 18th at 1pm, the days I first held my children. I recall these days, hours well,...

God of light and matter,

Gazing into fierce dark energy,
here on earth, not that which makes up space,
Gazing into all that darkness, spongy and close,

Piecing out gravitational pulls on us, it's time
to sort what makes and breaks us. Watching
for Doppler shift,...

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Invariably, it happens. I'll run into someone...

Circling the second anniversary of Haiti's earthquake, theodicy questions linger, along with unmet pledges to give assistance and aid, to this, the poorest country in the western hemisphere. The earthquake mobilized people so quickly, to give, to send medical teams, and two years later, there's been a fizzle, a falling...