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Like many of you, I was saddened to hear of the death of Pope Francis. Even though I’m not Catholic, I’ve long...

I remember when I was a child putting on my Easter dress and my fancy shoes—and then getting them all dirty at the...

This next week is the heart of our Christian year—Holy Week. It’s the kind of week that invites us to slow down and...

Some people walk through life alone.  Some grow older with no family nearby—some never married, others lost...

One of my communication pet peeves is triangling. That’s when someone talks to a third person about a problem...

There are times I head home and start replaying the day in my mind—going over something I said, or something I...

In the chaos of an emergency room, life and death collide in real time. I’ve spent hours in such places—not as a...

“It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine? Could you be mine?”...

Music has always been a big part of my life. My mother was probably the first to introduce me to it—our house was...

Have you ever made a Friendship Cake? In Lynne Hinton’s novel Friendship Cake, a group of women in a church deepen...