A word of tree, a whisper of stone

Last Friday my wife Martina and I went to visit the Arctic Circle. We took a 40-mile long ferry ride to Grimsey, a tiny island off the north...

On June 21st this year I received a very special gift. It was Sunday and I preached about caterpillars and worms. A thoughtful parishioner ...

Shooting a lion with an arrow? Wounding him and finishing him up later in a volley of more arrows? That was a pastime of ancient nobility a...

There is an archaic English idiom, To cast your bread upon the water. It is said to mean “to act generously or charitably with no thought ...

When you read the Little Red Riding Hood story, you know that speculation about talking wolves or the size of their stomachs is missing t...

Teaching Jesus - mosaic from Hagia Sophia. Our Father who are in Heaven... We know this prayer. We recite it every Sunday. Many of us ...

What I am writing to you today might seem to many Americans as distant as the stone age and similarly irrelevant. It is anything but! Rea...