The above exhibition will stay in place until early June. We will be in the Washington DC area for almost three weeks March 27-April 15). If you would like to meet for breakfast, lunch, or dinner, sent me an email, and we can plan for it. In Atlanta also, we have 5 days. Send me an email if you would like to meet for food or coffee. Here is our schedule: March 6. 9am breakfast/coffee meeting at First Presbyterian, Ft Worth TX, (email if you would like to attend.) March

Our kitchen windows As I write this, I am gazing out at a set of three kitchen windows in our second floor apartment. My desk is nearly level with the window sill. It’s winter, not a leaf in sight. The branches of a gnarly tree 10 yards from our window are chaotic, limbs curling out of broken stubs, and wounds on the side of the trunk, like they belong to another species. These branches divide and divide into twigs, creating a web I see through in winter, while in the summer

( To GIVE CLICK HERE ) “It is a world of magic and mystery, of deep darkness and flickering starlight. It is a world where terrible things happen and wonderful things too. ...." ( see below Buechner's conclusion...) It's the end of the year; the time most people think about giving to nonprofits and charity. Ukraine is always on my mind. Every essay, news story, novel I read, every film I watch, lyric I listen to, speech I give, or sermon I rea

(Above, Drone attack at night, Daybreak and a ship on fire. Below that, anniversary roses on the kitchen window, in the distance, the ship on fire) ADVENT IN A TIME OF WAR The Church has a calendar; there are seasons. They begin with Advent, the four Sundays and weeks prior to Christmas morning. The word Advent means “coming” or “arrival,” and by implication: waiting. The calendar is liturgical; it presents the church, and, of course, the preacher, with a selection of Biblic

click to watc h Friends, On Sunday night of Nov 16th (our 1 year anniversary!), the city of Izmail, was hit by 27 drones. The above video (57 sec) records our experience. The answer to my question, "What's that noise?" is the resulting fire at the port aboard a ship filled with flammable gas. We see it burning from our kitchen window, at about 200 yards. It's now Tuesday and the port and our apartment still have no power. BBC NEWS TANKER ON FIRE In May, we applied for a