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Not Dead Yet, But Charging Ahead More Slowly Friends: It is hard to get up much writing-steam when your beloved spouse of 58 years slowly dies of a disorienting and untreatable brain disease. And my own capacity for charging-on has been complicated by a heart disorder and the … [Read more...] about Not Dead Yet, But Charging Ahead More Slowly 9-14-17

9-15-16 Friends: Our daughter, Dr. Serene Jones, President of Union Theological Seminary in New York City and Johnston Family Professor for Religion and Democracy wrote following article for Time.com on September 7, 2016. It is strong and clear and I hope my readers will profit … [Read more...] about Healing the Spiritual Pain of America: We Need a New Common Narrative of Who We are as a Country

Friends: Trump Wins, the GOP Gulps, Democrats Uneasy about Hillary, and Truth Twists in the Wind! These are not happy times and they are dangerous times, even though they did not just suddenly appear on the scene in the last few months. All of us—whites, blacks, and … [Read more...] about The Politics of Disarray: The Struggle for Truth, Justice, and Peace [7-22-16]

Friends: As you might know, Sarah, my dear wife for 58 years, died this spring on April 2nd. The three previous blog-postings on this website appropriately convey much about her long-term illness and the wonders of her life. Being at Sarah's side, as she was slowly dying from … [Read more...] about Meditations on Sarah’s Dying, Death, and the Future [6-24-16]

A Homily by the Reverend Craig Stinson on the occasion of the Celebration of the Life of Sarah Jane Jones (1938-2016) “For now we see in a mirror, dimly but then we will see face to face now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully … [Read more...] about A Homily of Celebration for Sarah and the Gathered [4-10-16]