What’s Your Citizenship?
Henry and I were recently discussing the current political uproar regarding the US Census questions. As a genealogist, he’s obtained a lot of useful family information from US Census records. He tells me the citizenship question used to be asked in the Census,...
Let the Sun Shine In
We’ve just passed the summer solstice here in the northern hemisphere. The sun is at its most powerful and the days are long. Despite temperatures hitting 100 degrees each day (the average temperature for Tucson in June), we marked the occasion by letting even more...
Why Jesus Called Fishermen
Every story has a context. Over the centuries, we’ve become extremely disconnected from the context of the gospel stories, and one of those disconnects is about the political reality of life for fishermen on the Sea of Galilee. As I noted last week, John Dominic...
Millions of Years and Counting
The Grand Canyon celebrated one hundred years as a national park last week. As I mentioned in my prior post, we visited recently—two weeks before all the centennial festivities. While it might have been fun to be there for the celebration, somehow that century seems...
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