No I’m not writing about the presidential seal of the state seal from Arkansas. I’m letting you know that the author of these posts has returned to the beach for New Year’s, and I am acting out my reincarnated self — a great big seal laying on a rock basking in the sun. For me…
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Deep Differences
For the world to learn to live together despite our deep differences is the fundamental challenge of our time, but it doesn’t mean we leave the challenge to our political or religious leaders. The acorns and seeds of reconciliation must be planted and nurtured in small communities and groups throughout the world. If within these…
Reconciliation Revisited
It is time to renew our discussion of reconciliation. No better time I can think because of the upcoming New Year when we make resolutions to start afresh and begin again. But it is a topic that is much easier to discuss and think about than to live. A dear friend wrote me the other…
Family
Other things may change us, but we start and end with family. — Anthony Brandt For me Christmas Day is about family. As a child, all of my mother’s family congregated at Grandmother Erwin’s. In Little Rock, we may have had two Christmas dinners and three unwrappings, but it was about family first and foremost. Now, we…
Christmas Eve
Growing up I always felt sorry for Joseph. There is one verse in the bible where even Jesus says to him, “I am going about my father’s work,” not meaning Joseph but God’s. No telling how many people reminded him over the years of the fact that Mary was pregnant by another and gave him…