In Sunday school this morning, we continued our exploration of Job. It still feels very appropriate, but there are some very odd thoughts in the class about “bad things.” One of the people in the class said that they thought it was wrong for people to ask God why he allowed bad things

One of the books I borrowed from Grandpa (with permission to not return it) was a book entitled Civil Wars: A History in Ideas. As one might imagine, given the title of the blog post, I started reading it today. I haven’t gotten very far, but I can already tell that it is going to

When the pandemic started, everyone was understandably scared. Then lockdowns and mask-wearing mandates occurred, and it felt like everyone in Alabama (where we were at the time) started protesting about infringement of personal freedoms. The extroverts in particular seemed to take the increased

It’s not the first time and it won’t be the last: I think my plans are changing. When I arrived last week, the plan was that I would stay at my current location right up until the morning Sara and I were leaving. Sara and Mike would pack the car early in the morning, and

Today started off with cooking a Thai-inspired butternut squash soup. It started off that way because Sara wanted to talk while she was cooking, and I had a butternut squash to chop myself. During the course of the call it became apparent that both Sara and Mike are really stressed about selling