religion

Today, or maybe I’d better say ‘yesterday’ by now, is All Saints Day in the tradition of Western Christianity.  In the Reformed tradition of my church denomination, the saints of the church aren’t specially chosen out from everybody else for sainthood

The other day my friend told me about an incident witnessed by two people, one of whom saw meaning in the event, and the other of whom apparently found only an odd occurrence.   A groomsman had fainted at his brother’s wedding.  The question: was this caused by a virus and

When I was in the car yesterday, I was listening to the evening news on National Public Radio, when “All Things Considered” came on with Ofeibea Quist-Arcton’s report on the September 28 massacre of pro-democracy protesters in Conacry, Guinea.  I had heard the

My Random House Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language says that the first definition of “Perverse” is “willfully determined or disposed to go counter to what is expected or desired”.  There are other meanings which are more negative, but I’m

Until the federal government suddenly became interested in the wars between the drug cartels in the area, this seemed a completely ignored quarter of Mexico.  I made this painting after a church trip to Reynosa in the state of Tamaulipas.  Every year we go across the Texas border

I was with my once-a-month dominoes friends today and we enjoyed discussing important topics like the George Strait concert, the kolache recipe, the Nobel Prize committee’s choice for the Peace Prize, our creeping age, and the McDonald’s going in next to the Louvre. 

Yesterday was World Communion Sunday among the Christians.  It meant that, starting with Pacific archipelagos, traveling through Asia, Australia, and on to Africa and Europe and the Americas, people in churches everywhere celebrated the Lord’s Supper in the same 24 hours. 

“Be still and know that I am God…”  This quote from the Hebrew book of Psalms (the 46th psalm, in fact) must not be well-regarded.  We scroll our Blackberries, text, drive, work out, work, network, over-work, study, chill with a bottle, cruise, organize,

Emergency! Alone, Together Starting when it was just a newly-hatched community free-food-pantry, I have been volunteering for an organization of university-area churches called Micah 6, named after the passage from the book of Micah regarding what it is God requires of us.  The

This is the first panel of a triptych entitled “The Story of Nola Watters”.  Each panel measures 12″ x 12″.  Carnivale (Mardi Gras) is the season of wild abandon that precedes the introspective season of Lent.  It has a long history in Europe, and like a