Russellings of the Spirit

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  • Answers in search of a question

    If you ever get the opportunity to tour the Bradbury Science Museum in Los Alamos, New Mexico, you should most definitely not miss it. This is the museum where the story of the development of the world’s first atomic bomb… Continue reading

  • Be + Long

    Do you belong? If so, to what or to whom do you belong? In 2003 author Joseph Myers wrote a book called, The Search to Belong explaining that BELONGING is one of the most fundamental hungers human beings experience. He… Continue reading

  • When you don’t know… lean

    “I don’t know.” Frankly, I hate that answer. I hate hearing it. I hate giving it. I try to do everything in my power to avoid it. Because it is an answer that is not an answer. And depending on… Continue reading

  • “Forgive us our messes…”

    It is sad, but true: am a tidy-er. Meaning that I like to tidy things up. OK, so don’t look at the top of my desk right now for your proof. But it is true in just about every other… Continue reading

  • Can you tie your shoes?

    On my recent birthday, I proudly turned 62 years of age. It is still pretty mind-blowing to me to say that number, but it is indeed accurate. And turning 62 is a lot better than NOT turning 62, I’ve decided.… Continue reading

  • Sorry. It was my fault

    It’s finally over.             After 16 days of government shutdown and partisan wrangling, a short-term agreement to re-open the United States government and raise the debt ceiling got hammered out in the late hours of Wednesday night. WHEW!             Of… Continue reading

  • Tollbooth Theology

    A couple of weeks ago I had to drive to Topeka for a meeting. I like driving to Topeka. It is a good interjection of quiet time in my week and is also not a punishingly large amount of “windshield… Continue reading

  • Who’s fooling who?

    Two men. Two VERY different stories… and yet stories with some interesting similarities. Both men are New Yorkers. Both are very high profile individuals. And both now appear to have exercised incredibly poor judgment.             And as much as I… Continue reading

  • Dislodging the pearl

    “What does that mean?”             We hear something that confuses or perplexes us. We don’t get it. We want to be able to apply a word or concept to our lives or see the world in a different, more helpful… Continue reading

  • Did you notice?

    … but Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs.” Matthew 19:14 “I had no idea!” Do you remember the last thing that caused… Continue reading