Have you moved around much? Many people have, but before I went to college,  I had not been far from Pennsylvania, except for a couple of...

Ethan Kross has written a book called  Chatter: The voice in our head, why it matters, and how to harness it . (New York: Crown, 2021.)...

(a Steve Orr Epiphany reflection)   This year, the Twelfth Day of Christmas falls on Sunday, January 5th. At our church, it’s going to...

(a Steve Orr scripture Reflection)   Once again, the airways are flooded with songs of the season. Perhaps the most played is “White...

Many of us can name a church that we were part of when we were growing up. Mine was in a small, farming community called Bloomingdale,...

Advent Poem 2024 by Rachel Hall Some days we sit beneath the boughs of trees we did not plant bask in their shade notice the remarkable...

(a Steve Orr scripture reflection) Different parts of a journey are approached differently. Different phases of a process require...

When I was growing up in rural Pennsylvania, we had a mailman who drove by weekdays and Saturdays. My siblings and I (normally, I say “me...

(a Steve Orr scripture reflection) When Dad was a new husband in the 1950s, people were expected to work 20, 30, even 40 years for the...

If you cheer for the underdog, you are probably shouting for someone who is not likely to win. It can be a sports team or an individual...