Apr 8, 2023 | Pondering and Kindling
Hallelujah! It’s Easter! Maybe it’s my age (I’m 88), but my celebration seems to be richer and more meaningful than ever. Easter always brings to my mind the memory of a friend who was a Benedictine monk. The way we lived our lives has been vastly different, but I...
Apr 3, 2023 | Pondering and Kindling
The name Ja Morant is almost a household name in Memphis and is a well-known name in the sports world of our nation. His name is constantly in the news for his amazing performance in Grizzlies Basketball games. Recently his name has been in the news for the “wrong...
Mar 27, 2023 | Pondering and Kindling
March Madness is a thrilling demonstration of wholesome competition. But let’s think beyond basketball. Ours is a competitive culture. Much of our social life expresses it. Winning is everything! Though a good thing in many ways, competition can be an enemy,...
Mar 23, 2023 | Pondering and Kindling
In his classic volume, The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis offers 31 imaginary letters from Screwtape, the primary personality of Hell, to his nephew Wormwood, a junior devil just starting his first assignment on earth. The purpose of the correspondence, done...
Mar 20, 2023 | Pondering and Kindling
I’m writing this on Saturday, the second day of March Madness. Our family has a good time each year, each filling on a NCAA Tournament Bracket. We have a trophy that is given to the person that does “the best” on choosing winning team. The trophy has traveled from...
Feb 26, 2023 | Pondering and Kindling
Robert Waldinger, a Harvard psychiatrist is the director of the longest -range study of human contentment ever conducted, the Harvard Study of Adult Development. Beginning in 1938, the study tracked more than 700 people throughout their lives, eventually including...
