Bonhoeffer’s discipleship: Germany confronts its past You bump into the past quite often in Berlin. There’s the curated remains of the Wall, the vast architectural hymn to militarism of the Soviet war memorial in Treptow, and the disorientating claustroph... See more
Why Trump took on the Pope On 12 April 2026, Donald Trump posted an attack on Pope Leo XIV. It reads as follows: “ wasn’t on any list to be Pope, and was only put there by the Church because he was American, and they thought that would be the best way to ... See more
Some of you might find this of interest. I found myself in a very immersive dream, probably somewhere around 2 or 3 a.m. on a night not long ago. The dream was very much like a movie in which I was a first-person narrator. As I recall, I had infiltrated a... See more
This was the view at dawn from one corner of our room in the San Francisco Airport Marriott Waterfront Hotel. The room provides, as realtors might coyly say, “a partial bay view.” That is a portion of San Francisco Bay out there. And it is visible from a ... See more
Meda and I were on United Flight 373 from Honolulu to San Francisco on Saturday, March 21. Our flight was more or less on time, scheduled to arrive at SFO at a bit after 3 p.m. Meda was in the window seat, right side of the aircraft, looking out the windo... See more
