The United Methodist Church continues to limp along with a crutch of a pastoral assignment system that may ensure it will never vigorously run again.  I discuss my own personal […]

Today at First Things (here), I compare the recent work of Pope Francis with the life’s work of Wendell Berry.  It seems they have been drinking from the same well.

Eggs are in the news with millions of factory farmed birds dead.  When things go bad in industrial agriculture, they go bad in a big way. Perhaps, we can now […]