Clark Griswold aside, my favorite Christmas Lights are caught in a two-way tie: lights on a Christmas trees by a window, and the candles on a church’s Advent wreath. The lights on our tree at home celebrate all sorts of…

According to today’s reading in a great devotional book Tony Campolo recommends, Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals, Dec. 6 is Feast of St. Nicholas Day.     Two certainties are that he entrusted himself to Jesus Christ at…

Christmas lights are everywhere: on Christmas trees, in front yards, on porches, in house windows, in downtowns, in stores at malls, and —if you look— in the eyes of people all around you. Let’s think together for several days about…

Let’s hope this continues. He was sitting in a doctor’s office with his brothers and a parent.  My friend who saw this says he was too young to be reading and fully understanding what was in front of him, but…

The flame went out. It was the beginning of worship.  Everyone was watching the three young girls who were acolytes. One had just seen the flame go out. She was standing at the altar table, and her candle-lighter’s flame had…

She came home from the music festival with a new folder. “It fits right in with those t-shirts you’ve been writing about,” her mom told me.  “It says Music Maker on it!” Don’t you love that?  That’s you: making some…

“Every time I think of you, I thank God for you.”* Wow — that sure beats anything I’ve found in the greeting card racks lately. And it’s a pretty good thing to tell somebody, especially during this Thanksgiving season. Get…

I wish I were making this up. We met often. After the opening, approval of the previous meeting’s minutes,  and budget review, the next thing on the Committee’s agenda was to set the next meeting. Given everyone’s schedules, dealing with…

The final t-shirt Drew told me about said “Dream Maker” on the front. They’ve been sung about for years.  A few quick sample cuts include two Brothers crooning  “whenever I want you, all I have to do is dream,” to the…

Hope Maker. That’s what it says on another of Drew’s school’s T-shirts. But not everybody gets to wear one of these.  Not everybody has hope. There are even people without hope who will try to take away yours. You know…