LaVonne Neff > LIVELY DUST

A friend  asked on Facebook, "How are you going to sustain yourself emotionally and spiritually in the coming months and years?" I...

If Donald Trump, who is  technically a Presbyterian , attended church this morning (not unthinkable - he did attend  an Iowa church  one S...

[Caravaggio, Bacchus , 1596] A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine. -- Brillat-Savarin, or maybe an Italian proverb   ...

[Salvador Dali, Basket of Bread , 1926] Bread is an especially rich symbol (see yesterday's post about how symbols have many layers ...

[Rodin, Le baiser ] It's odd that Christians--people who claim to believe that God created the earth, sustains it day by day, and ...

[From the Schmalz Brewing Company ] If you are under the impression that the Bible recommends a life of dour deprivation--especial...

Someone has just offered you a big piece of chocolate cake. What do you say? -- Oh, I shouldn't. --Could you give me just half a ...

From Nicolas Poussin,   Le Christ et la femme adultère You know the story. A woman was caught in the act. The religious leaders grabbed...

When my friend Irene, who reads much more deeply than I do, said "I love this book," I thought, Uh oh. Now I'm going to feel s...

I just sent a review of Nicholas Carr's new book, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains , to Christian Century magazin...

For more than sixty years American presidents have tried to reform our health-care system, to no avail. In the same time period, all other d...

Last week a friend who knows my dogs sent me a link to Wendy Francisco’s wildly popular new song, “God and Dog” (over half a million views ...

I believe everything I wrote yesterday: torture is always wrong. No matter what. However, last night I got to thinking about how very easy t...