An online friend wondered, “What would Jesus say?” I wrote this in reply: A Parable for September 11, 2001.

Don’t have a lot of time to plow through ancient Iron Age writings trying to figure out what a cubit is? Try The Bible in 100 Words.

Here are a few poems:

Here is an essay: "Hold Me and Pet Me, Godde."

This is a translation I made myself of Psalm 23 (from the Septuagint), based on the work of the Rev. Pat V. Pickett, D.Min., who is an expert in Hebrew and who spent a year in an Israeli kibbutz learning how to be a shepherdess.

This is a translation I made myself of Psalm 34 (from the Septuagint).

Here are some writings by other authors that I appreciate:

"Footprints," by Margaret Fishback Powers

"Desiderata," by Max Ehrmann

"If the Earth Were Small," by Olaf Skarsholt