I taught students in both secondary school and college for many years. Most students would tell me that they were “spiritual” but not “religious.” I assume the difference was … more

Dear Beloved Community, I’m a big fan of pirates...no, not the baseball team, but rather the romanticized version of those rogues of the sea. The ones that say ‘Aye, Matey’ … more

The Bible has many references to fruit: “bearing fruit,” the “fruit of the vine,” the “fruits of labor,” and usually, we see that “fruit” is used to … more

George Eliot wrote, “No soul is a desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.” To have a friend is, in a sense, to acknowledge that I am … more

Beloved Community, Billy Joel, the pop singer, had a hit in the 1980s called ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’. In the lyrics he names many of the current events of trauma that were … more