To receive these posts by email each Monday, sign up.
For more commentary on this week's readings, see the Reflections on the Lectionary page. For full-text access to all articles, subscribe to the Century.
Apart from six years, I’ve lived in Kansas my entire life, smack in the middle of tornado alley. A year before I was born, a tornado of the largest classification at the time whipped through Wichita and Andover, two cities I would call home for more than 20 years. The tornado killed 17 people and destroyed a trailer park in Andover.
