

Not Exactly a Christmas Carol
(a Steve Orr scripture Reflection) Once again, the airways are flooded with songs of the season. Perhaps the most played is “White...
Dec 24, 2024


MY COUNTRY CHURCH
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,...
Dec 24, 2024


REJOICE
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...
Dec 18, 2024


Different Journey, Different Map
(a Steve Orr scripture reflection) Different parts of a journey are approached differently. Different phases of a process require...
Dec 18, 2024


MAIL ORDERS, LISTS, AND CATALOGS
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...
Dec 17, 2024


Dad’s Many Careers
(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...
Dec 11, 2024


UNDERDOGS AND TOP DOGS
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...
Dec 10, 2024


Ralphie’s Advent People
(a Steve Orr scripture reflection) "The Bumpuses were so low down on the evolutionary totem pole that they weren't even included in...
Dec 4, 2024


THE TONGUE
I remember one of my linguistic professors at Cornell discussing how the tongue was an organ of the body with significance, like our...
Dec 3, 2024


Our Contrary Cow
(a Steve Orr scripture reflection) Most cows are contented cows. That’s how it seemed with our dairy cows. If we fed them and milked...
Nov 27, 2024



