Music is food for the soul. If you find yourself spiritually lethargic or emotionally flabby, episode 60 of Presently Engaged with Mandy Pallock just might be for you. What will you put on your playlist today?

If you were to ponder that promise with the zest that Mozart applied to what we now call Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, how might your day be different? Episode 59 of Presently Engaged with Mandy Pallock is all about pondering the same truth, concept, or idea in different ways.

Making small talk in the kitchen at church one Sunday, a young man told me he had camped out the night before. We commiserated about how the unexpected cold had surprised him and how he wrapped every layer he brought around him—jeans, a flannel, and a hammock—leaving him wishing for at least one more layer [...]

With alarms set to go off at 5 am, I laid awake in bed, too excited to go back to sleep. Eclipse day! I'd read the books. I'd watched the documentaries. I'd refreshed the NASA website pages. But I'd never seen a Total Solar Eclipse. This was the day! My husband Peter and three [...]

There’s a dance that goes on in our neighborhood every weekend… One person stops at the corner, planting a sign promoting their open house. Another person can be seen taping up an offer for a website or yard work or a garage sale. Minutes or hours or days later, the neighborhood representative comes through with [...]

ALERT: "Your startup disk is almost full. To make more space available on your startup disk, delete some files.” Want to join me in a bit of spiritual decluttering? Listen to Episode 56 of Presently Engaged with Mandy Pallock, and let's take out the trash together.

Christ is risen! In this special episode of Presently Engaged with Mandy Pallock, join in as we read Mark 16. "But when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled away. As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on [...]

In this special episode of Presently Engaged with Mandy Pallock, join in as we read Mark 15. "We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all." (Isaiah 53:6)

What happens, you ask, when one does not go to the dentist for years? Listen to the cautionary tale and grow wiser. Episode 56 of Presently Engaged with Mandy Pallock discusses the difference it makes in how we ply our toothbrushes, in both the physical and spiritual worlds.

Perhaps it’s the nature of a European cathedral, of entering the Catholic world with a Protestant’s clothes, but I always feel like I’m interrupting—like I’m getting away with something. Opaque stain glass windows of diminutive size filter any light that may be trying to peek through the clouds. A cloudy day magnifies this effect.   [...]