There are a lot of things that don’t make sense to me. This isn’t because I’m unusually dense, at least I don’t think so, it comes rather from a lifetime of observing the world in a particular (perhaps peculiar) way and trying to make sense of what I’ve seen. There have been a multitude of…
The first Sunday in Lent and the Lectionary thinks our Old Testament lesson should come from Genesis. Why would the good people who put the Lectionary together think Genesis went with Lent? My first few encounters with this text in this context left me baffled. Thanks to the good offices of the Rev. Dr. Scott…
There are many puzzles in our lives going from the entertaining kind, jigsaw puzzles for example to the more important ones. Important is a very flexible word and a subjective one at that. For some, an important puzzle is why does toast fall butter side down? For others, it is how Ensteinian physics can be…