I have a wonderful app that notifies me when the night is going to be at its best for observing through my favorite Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope. On such rare nights, I can see many worlds. Planets, moons, and stars alike, sprinkled across the heavens. Sometimes I...

I’ve found that one of the strange benefits of reading the Gospels is that it makes me so very ashamed. Christ came to us in the flesh, and one of the things that never, ever crossed His mind was what was in it for Him. The great love He had for a humanity that...

At times I admire the simplest things because they often contain the greatest lessons. We have a comical groundhog that lives at the base of our backyard bur oak tree. At its very top is a squirrel’s nest, high above even our home. A few bunnies visit, and a nursery...