Originally published in the Lawrence Journal World on Oct 14, 2024 As a pastor of the United Church of Christ, I inherit a liberal faith...

When Patrick Mahomes wrapped his arms around Mecole Hardman, after the Superbowl winning touchdown, I did the same with my two adult...

On Christmas morning, he told us: he was considering suicide. I thread my arms through the sleeves of his black Geneva robe at our...

The noise kept ratcheting up. I ignored it until I couldn’t. I was crossing eastern Colorado on Interstate 70 with my wife Linda when a...

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“Papa, I’m scared.” I heard my sweet munchkin’s voice, but I wasn’t sure if I dreamt it or whether it was really her, my five-year-old...

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3:15 a.m. I told myself this week that driving the 221 miles to Tulsa and back was no sweat, and yet I laid in bed, restless. I dreaded...

My 23 rd birthday - the year my father died - marked a new low. I had just graduated from college, and I was “camping out” in friend’s...

Prepared by Peter Luckey for the Kansas Oklahoma Conference - March 5, 2022 Has something ever weighed on your mind so much that it kept...

The door opened. Expressionless men in black suits and dark sunglasses pushed into the crowd to clear a path. And then he was before me,...

While all hell was breaking loose at the US Capitol in January 2021, I was visiting my 94-year-old mother in a nursing home in...

Last Wednesday’s wind that toppled a tractor trailer tormented me with flying debris while I stood pumping gasoline into my car. I said...

What I remember most about my six-year-old birthday was the rain. It was my first day of first grade and I was riding a school bus for...

By Peter A. Luckey I recently had a dream. I'm sitting among colleagues. Conference tables are scattered throughout the room; important...