by Jonni Turner | Dec 31, 2019 | Theology & Science
Perhaps you were a science junkie when you were in high school, at ease with chemistry and physics and biology. If so, you were lucky, and I hope your love of science has stayed with you through the years. It matters deeply in the quest for understanding not only your...
by Jonni Turner | Nov 30, 2019 | Quest & Journey
Do you ever find it confusing when people say they are chosen by God, or others make that claim about them? This is especially hard to understand when “the chosen one” doesn’t act or speak as you would expect of a child of God. As the season of Advent begins and...
by Jonni Turner | Oct 31, 2019 | Holy Words
When it comes to working or creating, I am a planner, a plodder, and too often a procrastinator. As a writer and radio producer with deadlines to meet, I could cut to the chase when necessary, but it wasn’t my preferred way of doing things. What happens, though, when...
by Jonni Turner | Sep 30, 2019 | Quest & Journey
September’s passing at this northern latitude is like a road followed east at sunset. Light is in the rear-view mirror, and where you are going there is only darkness. With small, sharp surprises the air brings unexpected hints of the cold to come. If you experience...
by Jonni Turner | Aug 31, 2019 | Arts & Letters
It may seem strange at the end of a long, hot, febrile summer to call to mind a piece of music from a chillier season half a year away. Written in the Middle Ages and traditionally sung in spring, the Hymn of Kassia is heard in public once in the church calendar,...
