In her memoir Lots Of Candles, Plenty Of Cake, Anna Quindlen offers these reflections on marriage, longevity, and parenting: If a marriage is to endure over time, it has to be because both people within it have tacitly acknowledged something that young lovers might find preposterous: it’s bigger, and more important, than both of us. Read the full article…
For our final day in San Diego, I spent time at two tourist destinations. One of them was what everyone does while in the city: the San Diego Zoo. In a word: as good as advertised. (Actually, that’s four words, but you get what I’m saying.) Whether it was jaguars, pandas, or gorillas, the animals were Read the full article…
While Julie is out in the San Diego area at a conference for professionals in the medical field, I am tagging along, serving as a VP’s husband. So while her conference was beginning on Sunday morning, I took the opportunity to go to the 8:45 worship service at North Coast Calvary Chapel in Carlsbad. North Read the full article…
We’ve been saying throughout this series, “Jonah is not about a guy in a fish. It’s about a man on the run.” And so it is. But the part about the fish isn’t so bad. To see what that’s all about, check out Rudown. Sunday.8:30. 10. 11:30.
It is awfully easy in the pastorate to slip into the role of armchair psychologist. Which means this: when people make appointments to meet with me in my office to discuss a pressing life issue, I listen reflectively, probe background and even childhood issues, and try to read between the lines of the conversation to Read the full article…
