Author name: Chris

Independence Day is here again and I’ve been reflecting, as one should on such occasions, about the meaning of it […]

There’s a story about a young pastor in a rural area who went to call on one of his parishioners

Was I complaining recently in this space about the difficulty of getting everything done while retired? I was, and here’s

They say everyone is famous for fifteen minutes – but do they tell you it will be in Santa Barbara?

My California daughter has just co-edited a book about the choices women make when they have hopes for a family

For years I told people that I liked The New Yorker because of the theology in the cartoons. I once

What was Robert Frost talking about when he said, “Nature’s first green is gold”? I’ve always thought it was forsythia,

“Consider the lilies of the field,” said the gospel this morning, “they toil not neither do they spin.” Right. They

I’ve sometimes wondered what it might be like to be John Smith or, maybe, Bill Brown. In our corner of

The evening news tells us that many people these days are cramming 31 hours into 24. They question whether people