A Member of the Flock

I don’t like being called a sheep. As a city person, I don’t really know much about sheep, except that they are stupid, dirty, smelly creatures that stand around all day eating grass, willing to follow the crowd even if they are about to run off the cliff. I could be wrong, of course, but […]

Open Our Eyes – Mar. 20, 2023

“The very places Indiana bats trusted to preserve them betrayed them. Cool, dark, and humid, cave air not only holds bats in metabolic equipoise, it also invigorates a fungus new to North America. Brought from Europe on spelunkers’ gear, spores of the fungus multiplied rampantly in caves of northeastern states, then spread farther and faster […]

Working Together – Feb. 16, 2023

We shape our selfto fit this world and by the worldare shaped again. The visibleand the invisible working togetherin common cause, to producethe miraculous. I am thinking of the waythe intangible air passed at speedround a shaped wing easilyholds our weight. So may we, in this lifetrust to those elementswe have yet to see or […]

The Heart of the Gospel – Feb. 2, 2023

“This, I believe, may be the heart of the message. To let go of the stuff of our lives, be it money, privilege, our beliefs, or whatever else that prompts us to feel that it is acceptable to put people out of our hearts and simply walk away. To let go of the idea that […]