Month: September 2012

We had left too early for our vacation to get my Saturday garage sale fix, but as the sun warmed the day I caught a quick glimpse of a church rummage sale in the parking lot behind a gas station. “Turn left here!” I commanded. “There’s a rummage sale.” My husband did a weird left…

What do a Catholic nun, an outspoken anti-Semitic author and a social worker who protested the segregation of the Jews have in common? They all worked together with the Zegota, the Polish underground organization of 25 that saved the lives of 2,500 Jewish children by smuggling them out of the Nazi-established Jewish ghetto in Warsaw.…

Every church bulletin includes a prayer list: names of the sick, those without jobs, friends and family who are traveling, church staff, and, oh yes, the missionaries. Some remember to pray for those on the list. Some even pray for a blessing on all the missionaries. Others take the time to pray specifically for the…

In this season of belt tightening and looking back with a tinge of regret at the excesses of the last few decades, it might be a good time to reconsider some once highly esteemed advice and former examples. One of the first colonies, Jamestown, Va., nearly failed from lack of food because the settlers expected…