The Verge of Jordan

In June of 1998, my dad and I went to Iceland, just the two of us. We had absolutely no idea what we were doing. We rented a 4WD car and...

THIRTY years ago, my family and I flew a TWA 747 from JFK to Rome.  It was -- as far as I know -- my first time on a plane, and this was whe...

Dorchester Chaplains - (1943) "We had the gold rush wars Why didn’t we learn to crawl? And now our history gets written in a...

Last month, a Certain Party and I -- along with some friends and (briefly) my mom -- spent some time in Florida.  The beginning of the trip ...

Matthew Shepard * This past weekend, I was in Orlando, Fla., along with 300 other Christians from twelve denominations for the Believe Out...

ST. CROIX Today was our final stop, St. Croix, in the U.S. Virgin Islands.  Technically American turf, St. Croix is a bit of an anomaly du...

Bernard of Clairvaux - Abbot, Theologian & Poet (1153) ST. MAARTEN This morning we arrived at Phillipsburg, St. Maarten, the only of ...

William Porcher DuBose - Priest & Theologian (1918) ST. LUCIA Today's port-of-call was St. Lucia.  A little more than a hundred m...

Samuel Johnson, Timothy Cutler, and Thomas Bradbury Chandler Early Priests of the American Church   BARBADOS Dawn off Barbados This ...

MARY THE VIRGIN - MOTHER OF CHRIST Uncle Ziggy and Aunt Bertha aboard ship My love of ships dates back to 1974.  That summer, my grandf...

Laurence - Deacon and Martyr (258) Of course I could not pass up the opportunity to write about yesterday's most bizarre news story . ...