by theRevCK | Sep 30, 2021 | Current Events & Culture, Reflection
I have unofficially studied the body my entire life: from childhood observations of my mother’s midwife visits to rural Amish and Mennonite families to a youthful fascination with the surgical nursing magazines that arrived at our home. Half of my family works mending...
by theRevCK | Aug 11, 2018 | Current Events & Culture, Reflection
Journalists are equal parts cynic and rabid patriot. Most own a well-worn pocket Constitution. Ask them. I bet they’ll be able to tell you right where it sits on a shelf or in a drawer. They’ll have the First Amendment memorized and are liable to recite it...
by theRevCK | Apr 23, 2017 | Current Events & Culture, Reflection
It happened to me. On a rare shopping trip to buy clothes at the mall, my mother and I popped into one of those boutique shops with racks full of dusty blue and rosy, shabby chic lace. I loathe clothes shopping. Trying to make it as painless and fast as possible, I...
by theRevCK | Nov 8, 2016 | Reflection, Religion
For the past two months, instead of a teeny headshot of myself showing up various places on social media, a thumbnail image of Lord Shiva, a Hindu manifestation of the Divine, appeared next to my posts. I?m not Hindu. I?m a Jesus-loving liberal Christian pastor. It?s...
by theRevCK | Dec 28, 2014 | Love and Life, Reflection, Religion
You can keep Santa. Now the presents are unwrapped, and in some cases returned, I won’t be ruining Virginia’s Christmas or anyone else’s by confessing: I love Christmas, but you can keep Santa. I wrote off the jolly old elf once and for all after...
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