April 10, 2014 If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Each year at the beginning of Lent I try to come up with a new discipline to guide me through the passion of the season. And each year I inevitably return to the same forty day devotional that I discovered in a musty second hand…
April 3, 2014 One of the great liberation songs for African-American slaves tells the story of Mary of Bethany weeping at the death of her brother Lazarus. “Oh Mary, Don’t You Weep” is a classic Negro spiritual that offered the hope of freedom by telling a coded story: urging Mary not to weep for her…
March 27, 2014 A steamroller never sounded so sweet. Late in the afternoon today the diesel-powered piece of road equipment that I would like most to operate before meeting my maker was doing its thing on 18th Street: packing down asphalt to seal the gaping hole that has been with us for fifteen weeks.Rejoice,…