Pondering the Witness of Stones in the Holy Land
Over the past few days, I’ve been posting pictures of the Holy Land on Instagram because we were there on pilgrimage one year ago. So much has changed in one brief year, and yet so much remains fundamentally the same. The callous hardness of war seems endemic...
Bursting a Brittle Boomer Bubble
Age-wise, I straddle the Baby Boomer/GenX line. I married a Boomer, yet many of my perspectives (and musical tastes!) are GenX in nature. This is relevant for my reflections today because I’ve realized in the past few weeks that there’s a “protective” Boomer bubble...
Pondering another Scary Halloween
Last year, I posted on Halloween, pondering the frightening floods and fires caused by climate change. This year, human conflagrations are on my mind, especially in Ukraine and the Holy Land. Wars where uncaring leaders have made pawns of helpless civilians are much...
On Not Having Answers
I’d planned to post something else today (you’ll get it next week), but the war in the Holy Land is calling for some attention. Yes, everyone is posting about it—and that’s part of the reason I want to enter the conversation. There are so many people pontificating,...
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