As I write this, I’ve just come from a Passover Seder for small children. At this age, religious education involves a lot of singing, loud percussion instruments, and plenty of room for wobbly preschool dancing. Small children are demanding in the ways they receive spirituality. They sit still only briefly for narrative; long explanations cause… [Read More]

I. Vinton County, Ohio: The winter has ended, but the change of season is a dangerous time here in this poor, rural area of Appalachian Ohio. Melting snow has saturated the clay soil. Now it has been raining without end for days and the water has nowhere to go. The big state river to the… [Read More]