My morning readings get a little painful sometimes, but this morning I didn’t know in the end whether I was more sad or glad. I’ll break out the two separately, but the first readings turned out to be very hard.

My idea this year was that besides a New Testament reading and psalm, I would read […]

I’ve been making my way through “Walking the Bible: a Journey by Land through the Five Books of Moses” by Bruce Feller. This book is aptly titled. To read the book by this lapsed Jewish scholar who has found himself drawn more and more to reconsider the Bible he put aside long ago feels like […]

The whole country seems like it’s in the same heatwave right now, so I hardly need to start out the Garden Report by going into the kind of temps we’ve been having for the past month or so. Since Missouri is also humid, you go out into a sauna just to get the newspaper in […]