Posts by pwsadmin

I was at a family funeral this past weekend and got to sit with some old friends and new acquaintances. As we caught up with the people we knew, I…

Two things happened at opposite ends of the planet that are, I think, connected. The Alabama Supreme Court ruled that fertilized eggs are fully people. Ghana passed a law making…

We are all the victims of other people’s judgments, and other people are the victims of ours. Nobody gets through life without experiencing both of these phenomena, no matter how…

When the MAGA phenomena (Make America Great Again) became a thing, lots of people freaked out. Accusations of totalitarianism, racism, Luddite thinking, and the end of an Empire were tossed…

Nex Benedict was a 16-year-old nonbinary high school student in Oklahoma who died after an incident of abuse in a bathroom at school on February 7th. The police say it…

I sometimes get pronouns wrong, no matter how hard I try to get them right. It isn’t always easy to say the right thing. I am grateful that most people…

Tomorrow night I will be walking with others at Penn State Berks (5pm) to raise money and awareness for Reading (New Journey Community Outreach) – CNOY 2024 USA. This is…

On Wednesday I told you about Frankie – today, let me tell you about John. I was coming out of the church office into the very cold day, heading for…

Last night, a number of us from Calvary attended Safe Berks’s “Celebration of Peace”, an annual event meant to open hearts and minds and wallets to support their work against domestic violence…

Ash Wednesday can be a really sad occasion, even when it is the same day as Valentine’s Day. It is a low-key start to the season of Lent, a time…