I’m originally from Charlottesville, Virginia, and I grew up in the Church. I received the sacraments, but I had an abstract understanding of faith and Christ. My family in large part viewed religion as a built-in moral and ethical framework. It’s a lot e...
My wife Susan, and I just returned from our 37th CL Family Summer Vacation with both the New York and other regional communities. What a beautiful experience once again. The form was the same as all the previous years: a hike that I must say I was huff...
Grace abounds again. There was a whole list of difficulties that came with planning, actually attending the Lower Midwest Family Vacation this July in Tennessee, and then recovering in the days that followed. However, what remains for me is the grace that...
The large pink, purple trunks, decorated with flowers and ladybugs, lie on the ground, now caked in mud, their owners now gone. They are orphaned, like the little t-shirts with Camp Mystic written on them, tangled in branches torn from the ground and swep...
America is a country of noble ideals. The hand of Thomas Jefferson sketched these words on July 4th, 1776, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, th...