Rougher Stuff of Life

Perhaps the most recent one I have written: First Become a Tree, then will come the fruit. 1 Once armfulls of brambles spilled from my c...

So I started a new blog called jaypercival@blogspot.com. For some reason I was listening to Robert Plant and thinking about the different pe...

Why is this fight so easily lost? Our modern age has seen more bloodshed, but at least as crazy is the loss of common sense. We have lost th...

In a telegram to President John F. Kennedy, Abraham Heshel writes: "I look forward to the privilege of being present at meeting tomorro...

My gospel text for mid-week service was Matthew 14:1-12, the intense story about the beheading of John the Baptist. It put me in mind of an ...

Fox-Genovese (whom I refer to quite often) writes: "Recent scholarship confirms the age-old wisdom that young women and young men have ...

Today on the way in to work NPR was running a story about overweight children ... one third of all children in America. I only heard the tai...