Essays

I recently read through a discussion on social media about King David.  The argument being made was the very notion that the church would hold King David in any kind of esteem proved just how anti-woman and patriarchal the church is.  He used his...

            I committed a sin that was particularly embarrassing for me.  Whenever I commit a sin that is particularly embarrassing, I think of the early Christians who used to stand up and do their...

In the course of busy, we were interrupted by unexpected visitors. At the most, we tend to only find three or four Monarch caterpillars on our milkweed. This year, there were close to twenty. And a month early, to boot! They ate all but four branches of my milkweed...

Even as a child, I was fascinated with the concept of Haiku poetry.  It seemed madness to me to take something as free-flowing and abandoned as writing from the heart and applying such Draconian restrictions to it as 5 syllables followed by 7 syllables and...