Colorado is one time zone west of Kansas, so when a friend came bursting in to my church with news of the murder of George Tiller, I was in my study, not in the sanctuary.

My friend was horrified. I was aghast. We prayed for Dr. Tiller, his family, his patients,… Read full post »

My husband and I received a note today from a man who just buried his wife of 60 years. Instead of the standard note thanking us for cards, flowers, food and prayers, this one just says, “Thank you for eating cherries with me when I needed a friend.”

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1) Jimmy Buffett once sat on my porch and played his guitar.

2) My great-grandparents were close friends of Teddy Roosevelt. 

3) I once preached a funeral for a man who was later found to be alive and (obviously) not the person we had buried.

I was very near the center of the 1993 outbreak of a "new" disease, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, in the Four Corners, so I'm not quite as prone to panic over the swine flu as many people seem to be. Here are excerpts from a presentation I sometimes gave to a university… Read full post »

Thanks to the person who dismembered it, my blog will be largely blank until I can find some time to reassemble the pieces. Meanwhile, enjoy the scenery.

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