Sippican shared a video wherein passers by were asked their single greatest regret in life. Some of the answers seem honest; others, filtered to a level of banality appropriate for strangers. Several claim no regrets. To have no regrets is to have no memory or else no imagination. I have closets full of regret, all shapes and sizes. Cluttered, overstuffed Read More

A couple of months ago I ran into a friend from college. We hadn’t kept in touch since then, but I was happy to see him. “Why aren’t you married yet?” he asked me. The occasion of our meeting was a play, and intermission was nearly over, and a couldn’t summon up any kind of answer in the time I Read More

A blogger with more compassion than I have entertains a question from the audience about love: “I know God loves me, but sometimes I get really lonely…” Weight has never yet been a problem for me, but it’s not just fat girls that get lonely. As regards to feeling lonely I sympathize with the letter writer, and I know that Read More

I received in an e-mail from a friend the following quote: “There is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away. There is a time to fight, and that time has now come.” –Peter Muhlenberg, from a Lutheran sermon read at Woodstock, Virginia, 1776 To those who know Read More