Month: November 2020

  The brouhaha over the French laundry visited by governor Newsom in California exhibits an awful lot of interesting conversation starters. We are told to follow the science, and we are told all kinds of harrowing stories...

Is it possible to cancel Thanksgiving? For years I grumbled about the concept of a political proclamation to be thankful, (Abraham Lincoln 1863). I don’t argue with the sentiment, after all it is a Biblical injunction, but...

Marcellus, talking to Horatio, in Hamlet says “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”  The old adage that the fish rots from the head down was the metaphor for the failing Hamlet and that things were fishy.  So we...

There are times where preachers, if they are honest, will admit that some of the things people say about their sermons bring them up short, either because of the understanding of what was said, or the misunderstanding of what...

That little bird has chosen his shelter. Above it are the stars and the deep heaven of worlds. Yet he is rocking himself to sleep without caring for tomorrow’s lodging, calmly clinging to his little twig, and leaving God...