Scary News Headlines

News headlines are always scary. The Covid pandemic seems as if it will never be eradicated, what with Delta evolving into Omicron. Economic news cries of supply chain constraints and rampant inflation. Inflation hasn’t been this bad since the early 1980’s. And Russia is massing troops on the Ukrainian border. The stock market has succumbed […]

These Challenging Days of Covid

Life in these challenging days of Covid can seem like watching one of those wacky competition shows on cable TV. A helmeted and padded competitor runs an obstacle course dodging spinning turnstiles, swinging dummies, and other implements of destruction that threaten to knock her off a slippery course.  Our obstacles today have the names of […]

Give and Trust

How do you react to all the news of economic uncertainty and political discord? Sometimes I want to throw up my hands in surrender, turn inward, and focus solely on my needs.  But Jesus gives us a better example of how to react with the poor widow in Mark 12. She demonstrates total trust in […]