At the risk of sounding like a whiner who’s just venting… I’ve written before about our possible over-focus on pets (for example: “Critter Cringe”). Then in November 2024 I heard…
Gifts and Priorities
Tag: witness
Kids Are Listening
Pet parakeets pick up (and repeat) sounds and words that the owners don’t even intentionally teach. Like imitating the owner’s cough. Or things the owner often says on the phone:…
12 Answers in 1 Hour
Can you answer tough questions that friends/skeptics bring up? Nobody can know everything, sure, but it’s not that hard to dig into an issue that has come up in recent…
Same Old, Same Old
Certain ideas in the area of theology seem newly discovered (“we now know …”). Sometimes they’re billed as if no one was smart enough before now to figure things out.…
Minister of Loneliness
It was the summer of 2021. I hadn’t picked up on the news that Japan’s prime minister had appointed a Minister of Loneliness. (Apparently the UK had done that a…