It won’t happen again until the year 79811. That’s 77,798 years from now. So if you’re Jewish, enjoy the moment. I’m referring to the concurrence of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah. Some American Jews are calling it Thanksgivukkah. Actually Hanukkah begins on the Wednesday evening before Thanksgiving, which this year falls on November 28. It’s a rare …
I sat down to the evening news. That’s not always the best thing to do if you want to unwind for the day, which was my intent. I had been to a conference sponsored by the Sustainable Religious Lands Committee of the Festival of Faiths. In partnership with the Center for Interfaith Relations and Bellarmine University’s …
I first planted a garden because of something an Italian monk wrote some 1500 years ago. His name is Benedict— St. Benedict of Nursia. And the document he penned became known as his Rule or guide for monastic life. As author Jon Sweeney has noted, the Rule of St. Benedict became not only the basic …
“Tonight We are young —Fun. It’s 7 a.m. on any given weekday, and the regular crowd shuffles in. No one asks where to sit; it’s been settled by habit over the years. I’m at the retirement facility in Lubbock, TX, where my mom and dad live. And on this day, I join my dad’s breakfast …
She lowered her eyes as if she were too ashamed to look at me. Her quivering voice revealed the emotional pain she was experiencing: “Pastor, what those people are saying about me just isn’t true.” The sad part was that “those people” were from the Christian community, the family of God, the people called to …