Being Christ in Our Lives: Laura Williams Fritz

High school was a tough time for me. A lot was going on at home. I had no faith life, and didn’t seem to be able to find my place anywhere. Laura Williams (now Fritz) was one of those people who seemed to do it all effortlessly, choir, drill team, synchronized swimming. Girls like her… Continue reading Being Christ in Our Lives: Laura Williams Fritz

Of Abundance and Need

Note: Every six weeks or so, I’ll be writing on Sundays as well as Tuesdays at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there.  When we pray over and contemplate today’s second reading from 2 Corinthians 8:14 (… As a matter of equality, your abundance at the… Continue reading Of Abundance and Need

Love and “Those People”

Note: On Tuesdays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there.  “For if you love those who love you, what recompense will you have? Do not the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet your brothers only, what is unusual… Continue reading Love and “Those People”

On the Nightstand: June 2015

I’m headed for central South Dakota later this month–Oacoma, to be exact, a town of about 450 people that’s nineteen miles from where my great-grandparents homesteaded and twenty-five miles from where my father grew up. We’re having a Rigney family reunion, the first I’ve ever attended. And so, it seemed like the perfect time to… Continue reading On the Nightstand: June 2015