This Sunday and the past Sunday I drove a neighbor who is temporarily without a car to her church. It’s quite a small church and not even half full, and the attendees fit the pejoratives for backwoods hillbillies. All have the bedraggled look of uncultured rustics more used to working outside then meeting indoors, and mental handicap is overrepresented. The Read More

I’ve missed two weeks now of reporting on my sallying out into organized Christianity. Tomorrow I will go to the same church as I did last Sunday, as I am driving neighbor whose car has broken down, so I will describe that church tomorrow or later in the week. The Sunday prior I went to the other church recommended to Read More

Since last night–maybe even yesterday morning–I’ve heard the sound of water being drawn coming from upstairs. After a while I realized this was an incessant sound. There were people upstairs moving around, not sounding excited, and no wet spots appeared on my ceiling, so I figured there wasn’t a leak. So I began to wonder what all the water was Read More

Today I went to Zion. Not the historical Zion, of course, but a local institution calling itself by that name. It was indeed a mountain. In my early childhood I considered mountains to be only those geographic features with jutting, raw rock and year-round snowcap. It wasn’t that kind of a mountain, but as you drove up it the valley Read More