thinking-out-loud

It was one year ago (yesterday) when I first started blogging — on my Monica's eleventh birthday. Now she is twelve, and I've been r...

I finally got to see it on the plane coming home from Siberia. I'd been wanting to see it all along, but — not only did I not have the ...

It is the Eve of the Ascension of Our Lord here in Siberia, which means, liturgically speaking, that the day of the feast has already begun....

Pastor Grobien likes to kid me a bit, that my favorite Bible story is whatever Holy Gospel I happen to be preaching on that week. That's...

One of my young friends has asked me how to "defend the truth without brutally maiming one's erring brothers." That's a go...

"When the Lord taught us the doctrine of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, He did not make arithmetic a part of this gift! He did not say, ...

A dear friend and colleague of mine, the Reverend Gary Gehlbach, has preached his final sermon as the pastor of a congregation that he has s...