Maybe a moment of silence isn't the best way to commemorate 9/11. Silence may be the problem.
Category: Current Events
Find a Field
It’s easy to feel as though the world is tearing apart. Each morning brings a fresh litany of distressing news. The legal principles that founded our nation and the civic order we have come to expect are increasingly unreliable. Even nature seems to have abandoned its rules. One little farm in my county was the …
Hope Raining Down
He covers the sky with clouds; He supplies the earth with rain and makes grass grow on the hills. Psalm 147:8 Today, the sky finally opened up. Real rain at last. The flash and crackle of lightning and the boom of thunder preceded its arrival. It was a welcome sight after all the dry months. …
Frog Songs
The endangered California Red-legged Frog (Rana draytonii) in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area The worst thing we used to say about winter was that it was dull. After brightly lit festivities, the warmth of friends and family together, January has always seemed bleak. Just cold and barren. February isn’t much better, although there is …
Hope Among the Ashes
I am not superstitious. But as fires rip through communities around LA, it is hard not to feel uneasy about 2025. Five days after they packed up their Christmas goodies, hugged us good-bye and headed home, our daughter and her husband are living in a hotel. They are among the estimated 180,000 people who have …
Choose Joy. Stand for Justice.
Look up and away from the turbulence all around you to the one true source of power and peace.
The Upside of a Shutdown
It is possible to set aside a sabbath of sorts in which we focus on baking and breaking bread, listening to birds sing and breathing deeply.
Essential Hope
Even if you didn’t comprehend the language, the anger was unmistakable. The man being interviewed had just lost his home, his neighborhood to Russian bombs. His face was contorted with pain and the desire for justice. The faces that have filled newscasts and news pages in recent weeks are all you need to see. Their expressions tell the story of Ukraine at war. Anger and grief are well represented. Maybe more prevalent, however, are blank expressions. They may signify confusion or …
Don’t Go Into the Cellar! Fear and our faith
I sought the Lord, and He answered me; He delivered me from all my fears. Psalms 34:4 When I was little, my mom had a rattlesnake rattle in her top dresser drawer. It was kept in a gold ring box -- a token from her teenage years living in New Mexico. She and a group of friends were on the sand dunes near her home. She stepped off a rock and was confronted by an enormous rattlesnake coiled and ready. A boyfriend saved her and presented her with the rattle as a memento. …
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One More Thing To Mourn
SF. Chronicle My church summer camp may burn down today. Other camps are gone. Harley Goat Farm near tiny Pescadero, California, where we'd take the kids during camping trips, also may be in danger.I feel like my childhood, my happy memories are being torched. It is a heavy feeling. Our home is safe, unlike 50,000 structures under threat throughout the state. But the air isn't fit to breathe. Another sucker punch to the gut The New York Times …
