An Hour Happily Spent

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, as you probably know.

I have a little trouble with Thanksgiving because it suggests that we don’t need to give thanks every other day, which we do. Nor is proper gratitude to our Creator conveyed by eating too much, drinking, and watching large men beat each other up over a football.

But Who Do You Say That I Am?

In Matthew 16: 13-18, we have Jesus reminding us that the time is urgent. In this way, St. Matthew and St. Luke are capturing the urgency of Christ as prophet. Sometimes, the challenge of Jesus is not in what he says, but in that he dares to tell us that our time to decide what to do with him is limited.

Did the Good Guys Win The American Revolution?

George Washington, we are told by Ken Burns’s latest documentary series, was a (mostly) great man and a terrible general. He was inspiring, yes, but an awful tactician. Oh, and unforgivably he was a slaveholder.

Amazing Apple "Black Friday" Deals

Black Friday no longer happens on a Friday or even in the week of the namesake Friday. It’s in full effect now and some of our perennial favorite fruity themed deals are back and worth grabbing before the deals sell out.

Fields or Hutches?

When I was small, living on a small farm near a college town, my father fell for an idea proffered by the Ralston Purina Company of Checkerboard Square in St. Louis.