Category Reformation21

My wife tells me that I frighten people. Whenever we are in public and I meet someone new, I ask, “What’s going on?” in a somewhat loud voice. It is not the content of my initial greeting that frightens people…

You may have heard Apple-adorers testifying of the usefulness of an application called PrayerMate. Now Google-gogglers can join in the fun, because PrayerMate has been made available for Android. Some warnings: PrayerMate will not give you a heart for prayer;…

8 7. 8 7. D (Hyfrydol) Psalm 107Oh give thanks to God our SaviourFor his mercy rich and free;Sing his praise who find his favour,Rescued from the enemy.Every land gives up his chosen,Gathered up from east and west;North and south…

What is yellow on the outside but white on the inside? If you guessed a “banana,” though the inside appears more cream than white, you would be close. The answer is, a twinkie. Have you eaten one? They are fairly…

There’s something about the close of another year that encourages reflection. Maybe it’s only for a moment in an awkward silence among visiting relatives. Maybe it’s a day away at the end of a winter’s vacation. But all of us…

There’s something about the close of another year that encourages reflection. Maybe it’s only for a moment in an awkward silence among visiting relatives. Maybe it’s a day away at the end of a winter’s vacation. But all of us…

It happens a fair amount in December, and probably reaches its peak in the week between Christmas and the new year: we assure ourselves of all the things we will do once January begins – reverse the Christmas excesses, revive…

Henry van Dyke, an English literature professor at Princeton University in the 19th-20th centuries, wrote, “As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.” We, therefore, prize spontaneity. Many things…