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If you’re just picking this up after the holiday, Marti was still holed up in our tiny bathroom with the little electric space heater because our furnace was temporarily disabled, when she decided to allow me into the inner sanctum … Continue reading →

The heater blew. Okay, literally it burned out. Sunny California is not sunny right now and it is not warm. It is cold, cold, cold… 49 degrees worth of cold – inside. So yes. I admit. I am a pansy. … Continue reading →

Believing in the impossible makes it real. That is Marti’s statement, not mine. She is the eternal optimist. I am more like Tom, the doubter. But in spite of myself, the Catch Ministry has become a real, viable, significant and … Continue reading →

You’ve got to just come apart over this. This is the most unbelievable thing God has done. It has to be God because no one would ever have thought of this. No religion could propose it. No government could command … Continue reading →

Wise men from ancient east brought gifts, angelic choirs rejoiced, shepherds bowed low, animals bleated, God was born. Just like that. It happened in time and space in the little good-for-nothing town of Bethlehem. The magnificence was because it was … Continue reading →

HISTORIANS SURMISE THAT ON GOOD FRIDAY, two days before Easter Sunday in 1727, devout families gathered on a spring evening at the Church of St Thomas (Thomaskirche) in Leipzig, Germany, where Johann Sebastian Bach was the school cantor and choir … Continue reading →

THE WORDS “JOY TO THE WORLD” WERE FIRST SUNG to a significantly joyless world. The faithful who witnessed the crowning event were few in number, negligible of impact and crouched under the thumb of a powerful hostile government. The forces … Continue reading →

WE ALL GO THROUGH THE SAME ASTRONOMICAL YEAR, and here in the northern hemisphere the warmth and light of the sun are dwindling down to the winter solstice, just before Christmas Eve. Even as the traffic at the malls gets … Continue reading →

IT MAY NOT SEEM LIKE IT NOW, BUT THEN, IT NEVER DOES. Advent begins with a tired incredulous laugh, like Zechariah’s must have been when the angel foretold the birth of John the Baptist. Will a new prophet come forth … Continue reading →

Most of this letter was written prior to the horrific events of this last weekend. We felt it was a fitting word today when answers aren’t enough and words don’t suffice. I have made a friend over the last years … Continue reading →