PRISMATIST

How is it that an innocent remark made by a seven year-old comes around again and again

One of the key ploys of successful parenting is to learn to provide a more attractive alternative to the child’s behavior we want to change.

Weather report for Saturday, June 17th calls for showers with a chance of sun

My father is a font of wisdom and once gave me this sage advice

This morning I woke up with my cheeks wet with tears.

Last Saturday nearly every American celebrated just one birthday - that of the US

On the afternoon of December 24, 1947, Loganville was preparing for a modest Christmas Eve.

I’m a freshwater kid at heart.

Some places have the power to change the way we look at and live in the world. This is the first in a series

A few more water-related vignettes from my years in Hawaii, 1980s

A month before Easter Violet Taylor stopped by Prairie Star Community Church

It was the day after Easter Sunday and Ezra Beeman stood next to the sink in the kitchen of the Prairie Star Community Church

Mark Twain was careful, almost reverential, about words.

This is an essay drawn from a sermon preached on World Communion Sunday, October 7, 2018, at Peace United Church of Christ, Duluth,...

Long tunnels of night Through the sweet, sulfur air The road always narrower “Are we there?”

Nova Scotia is very forested.  

I was driving through Texas Hill Country with my mom last month ...

U.S. Supreme Court Amended Version

You can’t be surprised unless you have expectations. 

Photographic tour of Iceland