Enduring Courage

    Across southwestern Kansas back in the mid-1960s, several rock bands played the small towns’ school gyms and National Guard Armories. Their names make you smile: The Blue Things, The Fabulous Flippers, King Midas and the Mufflers, The Rising Suns, The Sensational...
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Reflection for Pentecost

  Receive the Holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them. (John 20:22-23) The scene of our Lord’s first resurrection appearance to the disciples, when all of them are together, from the Gospel of John, is sometimes called “St. John’s Pentecost.” John doesn’t give the...
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Anticipating Pentecost

“The one who’s in front of me.” That was the simple but profound answer the elderly mother gave when asked which of her children she loved the most. Of course, as fair-minded liberals we would want her to say that she loves all of her children equally. But love is not a right or...
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