(a Steve Orr Bible reflection) Not long ago, I finally realized a lifelong dream: to view a total eclipse of the sun. I stood in my own...

DaySpring church has the wonderful motto “Sacred and Simple.” Part of that simplicity is silence, but that is rare in our culture. We are...

(a Steve Orr Bible reflection)   To my knowledge, I had never eaten at a 100-year-old barbecue place. I had mixed feelings about what to...

Atul Gawande was a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of...

(a Steve Orr Bible reflection)   Who wouldn’t love to be able to turn lead into gold or rocks into precious gems? That has been the claim...

A definition of bonding is “the establishment of a relationship or link with someone based on shared feelings, interests, or...

(a Steve Orr scripture reflection)   Have you ever gone to the well and found it empty? The well of thoughts I mean. For some of us,...

Have you moved around much? Many people have, but before I went to college,  I had not been far from Pennsylvania, except for a couple of...

Ethan Kross has written a book called  Chatter: The voice in our head, why it matters, and how to harness it . (New York: Crown, 2021.)...

(a Steve Orr Epiphany reflection)   This year, the Twelfth Day of Christmas falls on Sunday, January 5th. At our church, it’s going to...