Recently, I’ve been watching on YouTube short clips from the multi-year TV series, The Crown, a historical- fiction account of the life of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II. Cumulatively, these brief bits make it easier to see an overall theme that can be lost in all the individual dramas the series depicts. And that theme is Elizabeth’s deep-seated reluctance to ...

As I said in the conclusion to my last post, in Gallup’s decades-long practice of polling Americans on religions topics, for the first time less than half of respondents said religion was an important factor in their lives. After peak...

This past Sunday I went to church for the first time in months. I wanted to see what the new interim pastoral team (a retired married couple) at the nearby ELCA church was like. And it was the first Sunday of Advent, which is perhaps my favorite liturgical season. Though I didn’t really think of it this way, attending worship after a prolonged absence was also a good preparat...

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