Our Thanksgiving

In these United States, we have been celebrating Thanksgiving for at least thirty years, from what I recall directly as a child.  Beyond that, we have to trust other historical sources, which give us a good idea of how this celebration has changed over the years since...

Mad Men

What ticks you off?  Is there something that people do, or a specific person does, that gets under your skin and causes you to get upset?  There are often things that may cause even a well-tempered Christian to lose their cool from time to time.  For me, it usually...

Lost and Found

Have you ever come across something you had tucked away some time ago, or thought you had lost and exclaimed ‘There it is!’  It is a good feeling.  This past weekend, I was playing junior lumberjack and clearing some invasive trees in some timber, when I noticed a...

Your Word

When you were a kid, do you recall making promises or sharing something to your friends or siblings, then having to convince them that you were for-real telling the truth?  Maybe you had to say that you were honestly, ‘if your lying-your dying’, ‘as...

I Have Issues

A week from now marks the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther proposing his Ninety-five theses, which was influential in beginning the Protestant Reformation movement.  We don’t typically use the word theses these days, but it was an academic position against the...