Susan's Pendulum

It looks like an old-fashioned manual on how to be holier-than-thou. It's not. The book is a delightful combination. If you can...

Challenge is probably too strong a word.  Maybe "plans."  Or "tentative plans."  Or wish list. How to Respond to East...

The story comes from many different families.  Kid says, "Mommy, don't go to work today.  Stay home with me."  Mommy says, ...

Consumerists find and express their personal identity through the consumption of products.  Its ultimate goal is the spread of happiness a...

Americans naively accept new technologies, thinking only of what these technologies can do, but never what they can undo . Crunchy Cons ,...

Free-market, technology-driven capitalism, for all its benefits, tends to pull families and communities apart by empowering individuals and...

Big girls played "Ticket to Ride."   Younger set tried their hand at Battleship. The fellas pulled out their Magi...

Eight years ago, a bunch of my friends started a book-discussion group.  I wanted to join.  But I was still homeschooling three kids.  Someb...

Joe has been accused of being a pietist .  He wonders, "Am I?"  What's the solution? Usually the person cusses, gets drunk...

Mr Photogenic Matthias weighed down with medals. Philip's height provides a grrreat view. Papa and some children. ...

Church's choirs singing with the symphony orchestra. Alia and Zoe -- shepherds in the SunSch Christmas pageant.

Broken car.  The deer ran into it. Broken brain.  Who knew there was an aneurysm waiting to burst? Broken garden.  But Katie helped. Br...

At Lessons and Carols the other night, we sang the LSB version of a Gerhardt Christmas hymn: Children, from the sins that grieve you, you...

Pie-filling spilled over on Saturday night.  The oven was smoking. Maggie and I have snotty, coughy colds. First item of business Sunday ...

I need to watch my whining around my daughters.  I express any dissatisfaction over what needs to be accomplished and how unable I am ... an...

Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord ! For what good is the day of the Lord to you? It will be darkness, and not light. Is not the d...

Interesting what we find back-to-back in Matthew. Chapter 25 -- the parable of the wise and foolish virgins.  They slept.  They were suppos...

Pastor is always talking about rejoicing, even in the midst of trouble.  So. Hard. To. Understand. In my mind, the opposite of "rej...

It's Luke that tells about the two criminals crucified with Jesus (23:39-43) .  Luke -- who was connected to the apostle Paul.  Paul -...