Wednesday | March 4, 2026

Newest Articles . . .

Hover over an image to see its description

Enter your email address to receive our weekly newsletter

He Was Somebody!
(February 28)

Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
(February 26)

In a Bleak Midwinter
(February 21)

Problems Become Gifts
(February 19)

Thumbs Up, Zach!
(February 14)

Wuthering Heights Movie
(February 12)

Thinking it Over
(February 12)

On Being a 12
(February 7)

A Few Nudwestern Maxims
(February 5)

Lest We Forget
(January 31)

One-Armed Man at the Concert
(January 29)

Lessons from the Lucerne Lion
(January 24)

See more Recent articles, plus a list of the Most Popular articles on the site following the Content Sections

See a list of all Articles related to Lent & Easter
(Lent begins Wednesday, Febrruary 18, runs 40 days through Holy Thursday, April 2 followed by Good Friday, April 3 and Easter Sunday, April 5.
Jewish Passover is Wednesday, April 1 through Wednesday, April 8)
searches on topic "Easter" (link will be active through April 15)

Newest articles continued:

The Old Man Hits the Deck
by Garrison Keillor (Jan 22, 2026)

I awoke in Carson City, Nevada, with a bump on my head, unable to move my left arm and my face was scratched and my left shin hurt…

A Tarnished Crown
by Greg Asimakoupoulos (Jan 17, 2026)

Note the cross in the background of the tarnished crown…

Watching the World Fall Apart
by Garrison Keillor (Jan 15, 2026)

Disaster strikes and people wake up the next morning and have breakfast…

A New Year's Prayer
by Greg Asimakoupoulos (Jan 10, 2026)

It’s a new year and a new opportunity to trust God…

Watching the Ball Drop
by Garrison Keillor (Jan 8, 2026)

A man gets a keener sense of the divine in a church speaking a foreign language&HELLIP;

A New Year's Bridge
by Greg Asimakoupoulos (Jan 2, 2026)

Inspiration from a wooden bridge in Lucerne…

The Blessing of Christmas Pickles
by Garrison Keillor (Jan 1, 2026)

Wwhen I got home I got out a fresh jar of dill pickles, which I find can be good at interrupting the blues if caught in its early stages…

God Has a Plan for the New Year
by James N. Watkins (Jan 1, 2026)

Some predictions inspired by the Christmas story…

The 365 Days of Chrstmas
by James N. Watkins (Dec 26, 2025)

The season of peace on earth, goodwill toward men was over for another year—carefully packed away with Nativity sets, strings of lights and artificial trees…

The Simple Gifts of CHristmas
by Garrison Keillor (Dec 25, 2025)

When you’ve heard a string of audiences in dim light sing about the manger and the silent night, your heart is full…

The Post of Christmas Past
by Greg Asimakoupoulos (Dec 25, 2025)

A Christmas morning memory…

Listening for the Baby's Cry
by Greg Asimakoupoulos (Dec 20, 2025)

This yera's Feast Day of St. Nicholas had special meaning for Greg and his family…

Returning to a Generous Place
by Garrison Keillor (Dec 18, 2025)

You can’t argue with luck, you just ride along…

Nvidia CEO's Consuming Anxiety
by Rusty Wright (Dec 17, 2025)

Are there solutions?…

Sing We of Christ
by Greg Asimakoupoulos (Dec 13, 2025)

An Advent hymn…

Back Home to Minnesota
by Garrison Keillor (Dec 11, 2025)

I grew up in Minnesota and my parents gave me an easy childhood, since they had come through hard times…

The Penny: In Memoriam
by Greg Asimakoupoulos (Dec 6, 2025)

The 1952 wheat penny was minted the year the poet was born…

The Christmas Story in Chronological Order
by James N. Watkins (Dec 5, 2025)

Putting Christmas in perspective…

Top 20 articles across the site:
Trending | Recent (4 months) | Past Year | All

Some Problems Turn Out to be GIfts —Problmes Can be Gifts
by Garrison Keillor (Feb 19, 2026)

She didn’t speak in the dream, she simply made everything peaceful…

In a Bleak Midwinter
by Greg Asimakoupoulos (Feb 21, 2026)

A Ben Young painting pictures a gloomy midwinter day…

Thumbs Up, Zach!
by Greg Asimakoupoulos (Feb 14, 2026)

We celebrated the life and faith of Zach Maso…

Wuthering Heights Movie
by Rusty Wright (Feb 12, 2026)

Romance, revenge, tragedy…

On Being a 12
by Greg Asimakoupoulos (Feb 7, 2026)

True Seahawks fans show their team spirit and loyalty…

A Few Midwestern Maxims to Remember
by Garrison Keillor (Feb 5, 2026)

I will always be a Midwesterner at heart. In addition to the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, the two great commandments, I try to live by certain simple principles…

Unitarians: Thinking it Over
by Garrison Keillor (Feb 12, 2026)

Grand Central Station is known as such because it is rather magnificent and stands in Midtown Manhattan. If it were renamed Melania, most New Yorkers would stick with the old name…

Lest We Forget
by Greg Asimakoupoulos (Jan 31, 2026)

Thoughts inspired by a memorial to concentration camp victims at Stroud’s Jewish Community Center…