Merrick Siebenaler

There are two topics the classic maxim warns us not to bring up at the holiday dinner table: religion and politics. As one of the people responsible for asking, receiving, and thanking you—

Call me a hypocrite: my reflection this week is going to be about waiting, but I recently binged the entire series, Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy. He travels the regions of the country

Thanksgiving in NYC is a tradition in my life. Having worked for the church more than two decades, it's a secular holiday—which means I can take a Sunday off—and

I was planning to send out invitations more than a week ago but kept giving myself another day. Here we are approaching this season of ‘waiting,’ and I’m like—where does that

As a father, I am first and foremost grateful for my family and our son, Leland. He is a gift to us not only from God but his birthparents as well. In so