Out in my front yard, my garden is stirring after an erratic but wintery winter. In the two eight by eight beds that flank my driveway, the ...

One of my congregants brought my attention to a statement yesterday by Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham and CEO of Samaritan's Purse...

I've always enjoyed Halloween.  Ever since I was a tiny person, it's been a favorite holiday, because, well, it's great.  Your h...

It's been a good spring, because it's been spring this spring. The last four or five years, late March and early April have been ino...

The knock came on the door late in the evening, well after eleven. The dogs, of course, were set off a-barking, and I was summoned upsta...

I don't know exactly why I stepped outside.  It was just to see what the temperature was like, I think, and then to look up at the bri...

As the Washington Metro area recovers from what is the single biggest one-day dump of snowfall in quite a while, I find myself delighting i...