God wants us to mature in our spiritual growth. That means we must let the baby Jesus grow up into the compassionate but revolutionary man the Gospels reveal him to be.

I thought our inalienable rights were to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” not anger and fear.

Now I see comics and cartoons as often healthy reminders that our world is not only a tragic place, but also a very funny place.

Your vote may or may not matter in the final vote tally, but it can always matter to your sense of power, conscience and consequence.

My sadness pushes me to explore where this spirit of retribution might find its foothold. Are retribution and retaliation Christian values? Absolutely not!

I think we all hurt God in countless ways as we provoke divisions in our close relationships, spew caustic comments offered unthinkingly to a total stranger, be silent in the face of injustice.