Today is supposed to be different. It is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. It began like any other day: clear skies, cold air,...

It’s Saturday night and I’ve been in the company of 70+ teenagers for the past 24 hours. It’s a weekend called “Happening” for high...

I’m still trying to wrap my head around what happened Friday. A video went viral of a Native American facing a smiling teenager at the...

Gray. Neither light nor dark. Today is the last day of Christmas. The weather is neither bitter cold nor sunny, but somewhere in between....

I just returned to my office after an 11-day holiday break. I had so many hopes for that break time, many of which went unfulfilled. For...

Transition Uncertainty Nothing is clear It is neither day nor night But day is approaching as darkness fades and yields to the light...

Two years ago, I walked across Spain for a full month, with thousands of other pilgrims, finishing in Santiago de Compostela at the...

Back when I was running, one of my favorite treats was to drive downtown, park in Little Italy, and run along the Inner Harbor. The city...

Exactly a week before Thanksgiving, halfway through the season of Autumn, it appears that Winter is fighting its way to the head of the...

I have been quiet for the past month, not much motivated to write. I've been struggling with lingering grief over a vocational call...

Clergy conference can be intense, and this one was no exception. We had been talking all day about how to have hard conversations and we...

Sycamores are one of my favorite trees. We had them at a family cabin in the mountains overlooking the Los Angeles basin where I was...

My 20-year-old son Ben likes to hike, but it is rare that the two of us hike together. He is a busy college student and I have limited...

It was sprinkling as I got into my car to head home from work. By the time I made it out the door for a walk before dinner, it was...

It has been a rainy month in Maryland. Over 20 inches coming in fits and starts at times and drenching storms in others. Water flows so...

I often tell people I live in Mayberry, the fictional town in North Carolina that was the setting for the Andy Griffith Show in the...