As long as I have lived here, almost 30 years now, a mockingbird has arrived every spring and stayed until the approach of winter.

What, though, if we constructed a boundary between our time and God’s, and made time stop?

To submit to the baptism of John is to admit that we don’t always get it right, in a myriad of ways.

As of Dec. 6, the death toll was 36 and officials said that no additional bodies have been recovered.