by Laura Landgraf | Jul 27, 2021 | Opinion
I recently slogged my way out of a series of losses. Though I talked of grief overlays, or cumulative grief, I didn’t address how one might do the work of addressing the presence of it in one’s life. So, let’s talk about overlays, a cumulative grief. Ideally, one...
by Laura Landgraf | Jul 26, 2021 | Opinion
I want both my eyes. I want to see with the ease I did when both worked. To expect depth perception to remain constant. To see my wine glass and pour into it, instead of all over a countertop. One of my eye docs joked that all I needed was a bigger glass. I want to... by Jim Somerville | Sep 5, 2013 | General
A sermon by Jim Somerville, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Richmond, Va., August 18, 2013 The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost Luke 12:49-56 “I came to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! I have a baptism with which to be baptized, and... by Greg Hunt | Apr 29, 2013 | Opinion
A gunman slaughters innocents at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Bombs rip through the crowd at the Boston Marathon. A chemical plant explosion destroys homes and lives in West, Texas. Every day seems to bring news of a devastating disruption in some... by Colin Harris | Apr 29, 2013 | Opinion
For a nation whose Constitution begins with the words, “We the people,” we seem to have an interesting pattern to the exercise and management of our “we-ness.” I hope it is not cynical to notice an all-too-recurring cycle expressed most...