Beyond The Rim…

The purpose of history and the work of historians is to analyze and explain the past, its meaning and implications for how we got where we are and where we are going. For example, in the United States, it is…

Yesterday I began talking about truth and its relationship to love. To be truthful eventually involves sacrifice. There will come a moment when telling the truth will cost you something. Not to belabor the pun but that is the moment…

Can there be freedom without truth? Can there be hope in the land when truth is sacrificed for a lie, for expedient gain, for political advantage? When truth is reduced to mere opinion, so that everyone has their own truth,…

This little sad chuckle has been making the rounds at the company my wife and I work for. I thought I would include it for everyone out there having a crumby day… SAD NEWS… Please join me in remembering a…

Today, Sunday, is my day of Eucharist. One synonym is the Great Thanksgiving. We are called to come to the table and sit down beside Christ and the Apostles, and share with all who have come before, are, and who…

One of the blogs I visit, Rebecca Writes, had a post on children’s poetry and I left a quick little poem in the comments. I decided to edit it a bit and post it here. Girls and Boys Girls are…

I have been trying to clean up my office a bit today. It definitely needs it. Whenever I do that, I always run across something on a piece of paper or Post It note that I had written but forgotten….

Work was frustrating today. I kept finding program problems that when corrected required me to redo many of the screen shots and explanations in the documentation I am writing. It feels like you have redo what you have just done,…

Sometimes love is tired. The eleven disciples who shared the end of the Passover meal with Jesus all claimed to love him. They all said that they would die with him if necessary and of course would never deny him….

We are going through Winter’s last gasp here in the Mid-Atlantic region. It is in the 20’s and we have had a couple of inches of snow. Driving to and from work today wasn’t too bad, but I purposely left…