religion

We have reached the final “last word” of Christ. The last thing he said while in the process of dying. The other things he spoke of were forgiveness and salvation — a good pairing — and relationship and abandonment — again a sort of compare and contrast of ideas.

I remember the elation I felt when I finished my least favorite class in college (German). I remember the relief I felt when I finished working my first real job (housekeeping at a run-down resort on the island where I grew up). I remember the satisfaction I felt when I finished writing...

I don’t like being thirsty. I don’t like being hungry, either, but being thirsty always seems worse. Maybe I’m thirsty because I just got out of yoga class. Or because I slept with my mouth open. Or because I ate too many pretzels. A tall glass of water can really save the day,...

No one wants to be abandoned. Left behind. Forgotten. No one. Not even the son of God. We do it to him all the time. We forget to pray. We forget to read the Bible. We leave him out of our conversations. But we’re sinful human beings. We’re expected to forget about God from...

It’s possible that you, like me, may never have thought that this next phrase of Jesus’ could be summed up by the word “relationship”. It is true that the word doesn’t appear in the third phrase that Jesus spoke upon the cross. Jesus didn’t waste breath and words philosophizing...

WORTHINGTON — Whether you are a parent of a toddler or a teenager, Grace Community Church of Worthington invites you to an Art of Parenting Conference set for March 22-23 at the church, 2011 Nobles St., Worthington.

The second concept spoken of by Jesus on the cross was “salvation.” There isn’t really anything more foundational to Christianity than the concept of salvation; the idea that we can be saved from our sins. That was the whole point of Jesus coming to earth, after all. People...

It’s not often that I plan ahead for my column. I do like to have a couple ideas in mind, things to mull over as I go about my business, but it doesn’t always happen. When it comes to Advent and Lent, however, I always make a definite plan. Or at least I try to. This year when...

It’s snowing. Again. And that makes me want a cup of tea. Tea is in my blood, though it took me 40 years to be comfortable with that. I have mentioned before that my Grandma and Grandpa Fraser came from Scotland. And, like any true member of the United Kingdom, they took their...

OK, last week I said I wouldn’t give airtime to the nasty weather we’re having, but this week I can hardly ignore it: we have so much snow! It’s filling our ditches and narrowing our roads and slopping up our driveways and piling up in our parking lots and filling our vision...

There are two things on my mind this week and I don’t want to write about one of them. I bet you can guess what that is. It has four letters and starts with an “s” and ends in a “w”. Likewise with the corresponding four-letter-word that starts with a “w” and ends with...

WORTHINGTON — More than 430 high school-aged youths and adults from at least seven states will descend on Worthington in mid-July for a Group Workcamp mission project. The community is one of 28 sites across the country selected to host mission volunteers in 2019. Tim Bickett, Worthington...