On 11 October 1521 the Bishop of Rome, Pope Leo X, recognized a work published by King Henry VIII entitled "Declaration of the Seven S...

To begin thinking about this issue, I asked Perplexity (an AI search engine) to find online articles discussing American flags in Christian ...

 My dad did not spend much time in front of a television screen. (That's what they were called back then: " Televisions .") Wh...

I remember visiting a church whose interior decor contained only images connected to Egypt. River scenes with papyrus plants filled the stai...

The significance and propriety of the American flag in Christian worship brings up such deep currents of sentiment that I think it best to w...

Most of the congregations in which I have served have an American flag in the sanctuary. (Most of them have at least one other flag, too.) A...

What about Jesus? You may have noted the conspicuous absence of Jesus in my previous post, though the ancient Galilean’s name appeared in ...

 I just finished reading the last book in Alexandre Dumas’ series that begins with The Three Musketeers and ends with The Man in the Iron M...

I just finished the book Both Can Be True  by Jules Machias (Quill Tree Books, 2021). Machias presents two central characters whose first-pe...

Sometimes, even in the midst of a crisis (like the current viral pandemic) it's wise to take a deep breath and step back for a big-pictu...