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Teenage boys can be the most loving people on earth sometimes. No. Really. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about love and kindness lately. …

I’m temporarily living in a duplex we own in the small tourist town of Marietta, Ohio. After living 20 years in an old farmhouse surrounded …

To me, one of most interesting ideas that comes from my study of the two birth narratives of Jesus (in the gospels of Matthew and …

Autumn is a season that reminds me of kindness. It’s a time of year where I choose to reflect on all the good. Something about …

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“If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all!” I heard that a lot when I was growing up. Apparently, I …

The day of January 25, 1978, had been favorable—rain and fog, a little misty, but the temperature a mild 40 degrees—when I clocked in at …

It was a freezing fall morning when I found myself waking up earlier than usual. Yet today it wasn’t to study; it was to have …

One bitterly cold February day driving from Wisconsin to Georgia, feeling dispirited by all the dissension and even downright vitriol in the country, I pulled …