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April 2017

April 24, 2017

Happy St. George Day! And Who Is Saint George?

April 23 celebrates the date of the martyrdom of St. George, a little-known saint by Americans,...

April 19, 2017

The Brontës’ Grand Hope for the Master Wave of Calm

PBS recently aired an episode called To Walk Invisible, exploring the short, vaulting and tragic...

April 13, 2017

Thoughts That Console Me on Maundy Thursday

The Thursday before Easter Sunday is called Maundy Thursday in some traditions. I have attended...

April 06, 2017

The City of God v The City of Man

by Wendy Murray Amid the perpetual dissent that arises from President Trump’s many actions and...

April 04, 2017

My Visit with Fred “Mister” Rogers, Part Two (Audio) ~ Television as Holy Ground

By Wendy Murray Continuing my conversation with Fred Rogers on the day we met in...

March 2017

March 30, 2017

A Picture of Civic Beauty: Be Kind to One Another

by Wendy Murray A man keeled over and hit the floor hard one morning when...

March 28, 2017

My Visit with Fred “Mister” Rogers, Part One (Audio) ~ His Family & the Puppets

By Wendy Murray This posting marks the first of what I hope will be ongoing...

March 23, 2017

What Was Muhammad’s Intention for Islam?

by Wendy Murray I heard a pundit say recently that “Jesus probably would have been...

March 21, 2017

Reflection: Jesus Would Not Trust Them

By Wendy Murray In church the other day, as the pastor gave his sermon, a...

May 2015

May 09, 2015

Reflections of An Aging Mother

Many faded photos of women in horn-rimmed glasses and puffy hair are popping up on...

April 2015

April 09, 2015

Moneychangers Part 5 ~ Q & A with Ben Zoba

This post concludes the five-part podcast series titled Moneychangers, in which we have explored with...

February 2015

February 23, 2015

Moneychangers Part 4 ~ Beginning points toward a better way

A Conversation with Ben Zoba about Money, Part 4 In this installment -- the fourth...

February 05, 2015

Moneychangers ~ Part 3: The psychological effect of money scarcity

In this third installment of our conversation with local farmer and community activist, Ben Zoba,...

January 2015

January 26, 2015

Moneychangers Part 2 ~ What is the Federal Reserve and how is it hurting families?

A conversation with Ben Zoba, Part 2 of 5 In this second of five installments...

January 19, 2015

Moneychangers Part 1 ~ Is it time to rethink how we “do” money”?

A conversation with Ben Zoba, Part 1 of 5 The post-holiday season stands as a...

October 2014

October 14, 2014

Who Is the *Real* Francis of Assisi? A New Book Hasn’t Found Him

A Review of When Francis Saved the Church, by Jon Sweeney (This review is part...

April 2014

April 02, 2014

C.S. Lewis on Suffering, Let’s Do Lunch ~ a New Book

Alistair McGrath's new book If I Had Lunch with C.S.Lewis is a short volume with...

February 2014

February 05, 2014

Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Lost Love

By Wendy Murray Yesterday, February 4,...

January 2014

January 20, 2014

MLK’s Christian Call and Why It Matters

By Wendy Murray Today is Martin Luther King,.Day, which also marks the release of a...

December 2013

December 31, 2013

3 Meaningful Truths to Embrace Wildly This Year

By Wendy Murray 1. Don't Interrupt Talk ought to be sacred because it is so...

December 30, 2013

5 Hopes For the New Year

By Wendy Murray Dear Friends and Readers, I have been on hiatus from posting and...

October 2013

October 04, 2013

Remembering St. Francis of Assisi

Saint Francis of Assisi died 787 years ago today, and yet he seems more alive...

August 2013

August 15, 2013

Do Not Let Others Judge You (and Don’t Judge)

People will judge you, of course. That is my point. Determine in your heart...

August 10, 2013

What You Do, Do — With a Swift Pace and Nimble Step

Clare of Assisi died 760 years ago tomorrow (August 11, 1253). Yet she remains as...

July 2013

July 28, 2013

Stones Kill Everybody

One of the most confounding and at the same time consoling passages in the New...

July 21, 2013

The Sanctity of the Airport

Only in an airport are human beings compatriots in a netherworld of suspension, neither...

June 2013

June 13, 2013

The Hidden Life of Clare of Assisi

The hidden life of Clare of Assisi (119-[something] to 1253) is forever bound to that...

June 03, 2013

Advice to Newlyweds from a (Divorced) Pastor’s Wife

I have had the privilege and shared in the glory of seeing two of my...

April 2013

April 24, 2013

In This Season of Weddings, Remember the Divorced

Ah, Spring ~ the season that inevitably, and rightly, hails a punishing schedule of weddings....

April 05, 2013

5 Timely Lessons from the Saint of Writers and Pilgrims

Many of you are aware that I am a beloved devotee of St. Francis of...