Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins begins his poem “Another Reason Why I don’t Keep a Gun in the House” with this line: “The neighbors’ dog will not stop barking.” One night last week it was my dog Wrigley who wouldn’t stop barking—or howling, rather—at every noise he heard: the neighbors’ car door, the train…
Category: Theological Reflection
Mr. Rogers is on Netflix!
Call it what you will, but sometimes in life the stars just align and the smallest of moments change our lives forever. Flashback to my senior year in high school a zillion years ago. I was actively involved in a local telethon to raise money for Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh… a great tradition among local…
Climate Change and the Church
I attended the Henderson Summer Leadership Conference that took place earlier this month at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. I have to confess that I was more intrigued by the opportunity to see Chef Tom strut his stuff than I was by the opportunity to examine issues of food justice. But as I listened to the presenters…