Big Fish

My father died 21,550 days ago, and I still don’t really have him figured out.

If you do the arithmetic and remember leap year days, you’ll find that it works out to 59 years.

We’ve Forgotten the Art of the Case

Leland Vittert of NewsNation has been making the point for weeks, but when he said it on a radio program Sunday night, a lightbulb came on for me. He was talking about the Iran war, but it might as well have been about our society generally, a society that has forgotten the necessary task of persuasion on matters that matter.

It's [Not] a Gas

Sometimes it seems as if the universe is warning us against something. Or, perhaps, it is just measuring our determination. Testing us. In “The Once and Future King,” the fine telling of the Arthurian legend that set to music became “Camelot,” T. H. White offered the parable that sometimes bad things happen to keep worse things from happening.

I Want People To Agree With Me, Not Die

Pastor Tim has already written about this in light of another assassination attempt on either President Trump or other members of the administration.

Many people are unhealthily and dangerously angry, and it seems like it’s getting worse.

Watching Japanese Baseball

Over the last few years, as frequent readers here know, I’ve taken interest in the lovely, even cute, Japanese culture.