A big beautiful blue box in North Jersey that you could see from the highway. “IKEA” spelled out, luminous in gold. It was a special chance to stop there and rare for us to have a vehicle b...Read More
Being a parish minister, the kind that stands up in an old brick building on Sunday mornings preaching to the sometimes sleepy and occasionally skeptical folks lined up in pews, one quickly might real...Read More
Photo Credit: www.ForestWander.com Once a year I experience this reflexive anxiety as the government comes to collect its due from my wages, along with the rest of America. This year, yesterday...Read More
Throughout my childhood, my sense of the Confederacy and the South was shaped in fragmented ways by two legendary generals, Lee and Bragg. They remain strangely present with me today as I continue to ...Read More