by Russell Fuller | Feb 26, 2014 | Betsy Toll, Blogs
On call as a hospital chaplain last weekend, I step in to say hello to a tender, grieving, middle-aged father in a darkened room, sitting at the bedside of his gravely ill 24-year old son, lying in a sedated sleep. It’s been six weeks like this, the father says...
by Russell Fuller | Jan 2, 2014 | Betsy Toll, Blogs
Every day here on planet Earth is a full year past its own date a year ago. A whole new year begins every single day, yet there is nothing sacrosanct about that fact on any day. Every day holy, if we make it so. Every single day completes a year-long round and begins...
by Bets | Sep 8, 2013 | Betsy Toll, Blogs
Though Betsy wrote this piece more than a decade ago, prompted first by the events that unfolded in this country on September 11, second by our indefensible invasion of Iraq, and generally by cultures of violence, a world continually at war, I find this short essay to...
