Intersections, Faith, and the Safety of Lions

There are special moments when my day job (teaching) and my evening work (writing) make an inadvertent intersect and coalesce into a good conversation. I have mentioned occasionally here that I am writing a book about the Beatitudes and subsequently spending a good amount of time living in those words, imagining Jesus, and the characters […]

A Post- Valentine’s Day Lamentation…

One of my friends is a prominent journalist who writes about politics for several national magazines. He penned a funny op-ed the other year about the consumer pressures of Valentine’s Day and the challenges he experienced trying to find a last minute card and flowers for his wife. I think his readers laughed, but unfortunately […]