This must have been eight or ten years ago — It was after one of my Saturday night services at…

Sometimes I get into these discomforting little eddies of self-doubt. Rarely do I remain stuck there for too long, but…

Last weekend, Patty Stephens led a “Hymnprov” workshop, where a bunch of us talked and riffed and improvised for a…

I finally watched David Byrne’s American Utopia this week. And I’m so very glad I did! It has been in…

It’s easy to conclude that people are the problem. It sure looks like people are to blame for pretty much…

PBS has an excellent, new, three-part documentary about the disco craze of the 1970s. It’s called “DISCO: Soundtrack of a…

The phrase “God the Father” makes me cringe a little bit. The Patriarchy, Authority, Judgment — it evokes all those…

Mom liked to tell this story about my father’s family. When my paternal grandparents, Raymond and Bertha Groves, decided to…

Everything feels like a bit of a scramble right now. That’s not a complaint, simply an observation. It’s definitely not…

A science article in The Atlantic a few months ago — “How Animals Perceive the World,” by Ed Yong —…

A hundred and fifty years ago, a group of edgy outsider artists organized a renegade exhibition. These painters all had…

I was reading about the origins of “Goldilocks.” I’d never thought much about it. The story seems pretty timeless, always…