On Friday, December 14th, Sandy Hook Elementary experienced a tragedy that is creating a new normal for the town of Newtown, Connecticut. The very same day as the school shootings I worked a viewing at a small Mennonite church in Gap, PA. As with most Mennonite churches, the pastor is bi-vocational. This specific pastor works […]
Have you ever had a horrible dream or premonition that you were going to die? If you were able to answer that question, thankfully the premonition has yet to come true. 99.99% of the time those premonitions don’t come true, unless you’re Mikey Welsh. Mikey Welsh was the former bassist for Weezer (of “The Sweater […]
I went to high school with Taylor, although I doubt he remembers me. We graduated from Lancaster Mennonite High School in the class of 2000 … although I don’t think either of us came from a Mennonite background. Since high school, he’s been cast in a number of TV roles. But, recently, his tabloid fame […]
Two weeks ago we had the funeral service for a young man at the funeral home. He died of a form of cancer and left behind not only a young son, but a little tension between his family and his friends. When there’s tension, as the funeral directors, we usually end up hearing both sides […]
War is hell. I don’t know that anybody likes it … especially the families that are sending their young men and women over to fight. It’s tough, both physically and emotionally on both the soldier and the soldier’s family and friends. It pushes us to make decisions we’d never make in a perfect world. But […]