A Master was surprised to hear shouting and altercation going on in his courtyard. When he was told that one of his disciples was at the center of it, he had the man sent for and asked what the cause of the din was. ‘There is a delegation of scholars that has come to visit you. I told them you do not…

I used to love the comic strip, Calvin and Hobbs, named after the theologian and philosopher, but don’t let that bother you. But I liked it because it was theological and philosophical as well, of course, as funny. In the strip, Calvin was as boy and Hobbs his stuffed Tiger who became real- but only in his mind’s eye of course. Chet…

In this resplendent summer, it has been a luxury to draw the   breath of life.  The grass grows, the buds burst, the meadow is   spotted with fire and gold in the tint of flowers. The air is full of   birds, and sweet with the breath of the pine, the balm-of-Gilead, and   the new hay. Night brings no gloom to the heart with…