From Grief, Goodness

“She said her son was a beautiful soul, and something good will come of this.” That’s a sentence from President Biden’s State of the Union speech, referring to what RowVaughn Wells said about the brutal death of her son, Tyre Nichols. If we can act collectively and responsibly to bring about the kind of policing reforms that will prevent this from happening again, then that will be the “something good.” For this young man’s mother, who has just begun her … Read More

Go Ahead, Retreat…Oh Wait, Don’t

If I didn’t know better, I might think that just about the whole town where I live (for a few more weeks, anyway) has become virulently non-religious.  Why?  Because there are signs popping up all over the place with this exhortation:  “STOP the Retreat!” A pastor’s wife needs to add a whole slew of new words to the household lexicon – at least I did – and “retreat” is right up there with Most Commonly Heard Episcopal Life Terms (OK, … Read More