It's time to pack up our decorations, put away the Nativity set, recycle the Christmas cards, and store or discard our Christmas trees. Christmas is over, and the New Year is right around the corner. Not so fast. Christmas isn't the end of a story about a birth....
A favorite tradition for Christmas Eve is to sing together by candlelight. Whether holding an actual candle, or one powered by a battery or enjoying burning candles from a safe distance, the soft glow of candlelight creates a reflective mood. Each year I look forward...
There are many ways of characterizing the year 2020, but the word stability doesn't belong in the final cut. The words uncertainty and unstable are more accurate choices. Another word that kept trying to emerge, like the sun peeking through a cloudy and rainy day, was...
Joan Elizabeth Osborne is an American singer, songwriter from a suburb just outside of Louisville, Kentucky. Born in 1962, Joan is best known for a song she recorded written by songwriter Eric Bazilian titled "One of Us" from her album, Relish, released in 1995. The...
Analyzing what is behind the deep ideological divisions in our country is keeping researchers busy. In particular, the threats of violent responses from persons claiming to be justified in their anger. At no point in our history has a presidential election been so...
Just under 160 Million people voted in this past presidential election. In fact, more of us voted in the last election than any election in history. This is twenty million more voters than the previous record. And people showed up to vote despite the risk of a...
This Christmas season promises to be quite unique, unless we ignore the CDC warnings and put the lives of others at risk. Which is not very loving. So our worship team decided to create Christmas celebration gift kits for each household. Each celebration gift kit...
OzAsia Festival kicked off in reflective-then-dramatic style with Red Sorghum, an epic dance Is it possible to live fearlessly when surrounded by uncertainty? Do old age, sickness, and death have to threaten us? It is said that only the good die young, but when the...
Are you worried that the world is headed towards some awful disaster? The tone of much of the political rhetoric continues to throw out frightening "what-if's" that lead a lot of us in this direction. Our country hasn't faced a president refusing to accept the results...
I suspect that most of us have had one of those crazy dreams where we end up in some embarrassing predicament. Whether we show up at school or work without pants or speak in front of a large group of strangers with our fly open or our blouse unbuttoned in the wrong...