A Citizen and a Gentleman
December 8, 2022 | Jim Angehr
Time for true confessions here at Letters To You, dear reader: until this week, I had never seen Citizen Kane. The horror! The horror! Likewise, I can neither confirm nor deny that periodically over the years, I’ve participated in...
My Blog, and I Can Cry if I Want To
November 25, 2022 | Jim Angehr
Letters to You returns! I was on a mini-sabbatical for all of November until now. My time off, however, didn’t go as planned: my mom, who had been struggling through late stage Alzheimer’s Disease, came down with COVID at the...
Living with the Unlivable
October 20, 2022 | Jim Angehr
Welcome to part deux of a quick consideration of a huge issue–––how to cope with the seemingly accelerated pace of tragic occurrences around the world. We begin with lament. From there, I’d identify what I perceive as...
When Abnormal Normalizes
October 13, 2022 | Jim Angehr
Let’s double click on something that I mentioned during last Sunday’s sermon, namely that there have been a couple particular instances recently that have been points of lament for me. For one, I happened to be in Atlanta (because...
When Stories Lie
September 22, 2022 | Jim Angehr
The stories we tell ourselves matter, and it also matters whether those stories are actually true. Meet someone I’ll call Robert, a buddy of mine from college. Robert had never went into great detail about it, but I knew that part of his...