The first winter storm blew in yesterday, blanketing our world in white. Although our churches are moving into Advent, and trying to restrain congregational urges to match consumerist hype that we are in the Christmas season, my mind still drifts …

19 months ago, I officiated at my doctor’s funeral. Technically he was not my primary care doctor at the time of his death, since he had retired a few years earlier. But I could not meet him anywhere without considering …