When People Are Kind In a corrosive world how can we be like Jesus? We focus on being in a kinder, gentler place of forgiveness and grace.

Jumping over couches, climbing trees and wrestling my siblings filled my childhood. I doubt I ever sat still. So as I marched into my teenage …

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 …

Something is happening that should make us all nervous and afraid. Civility and a shared sense of community is slipping away. People are more brittle …

“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 …

Benevolence is a word that we seldom hear used today. It means that someone who is benevolent has a disposition to do good and to …

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 …