I love Noche de Canción– our Spanish-language worship nights at Naomi House. There’s something about praising God along with people whose...

(a Steve Orr Bible reflection)   Would you want the truth told at your funeral: the good, the bad—the ugly? Perhaps, if you could have...

Festivities We welcome in the New Year at the stroke of midnight, as if it is a personality, with shouts and the song Auld Lang Syne....

(a Steve Orr Bible reflection) Not long ago, I finally realized a lifelong dream: to view a total eclipse of the sun. I stood in my own...

DaySpring church has the wonderful motto “Sacred and Simple.” Part of that simplicity is silence, but that is rare in our culture. We are...

(a Steve Orr Bible reflection)   To my knowledge, I had never eaten at a 100-year-old barbecue place. I had mixed feelings about what to...

Atul Gawande was a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of...

(a Steve Orr Bible reflection)   Who wouldn’t love to be able to turn lead into gold or rocks into precious gems? That has been the claim...

A definition of bonding is “the establishment of a relationship or link with someone based on shared feelings, interests, or...

(a Steve Orr scripture reflection)   Have you ever gone to the well and found it empty? The well of thoughts I mean. For some of us,...