Category: Uncategorized
We Are Family
In a moment, as time goes, our nation came under a new form of government and new management upon the ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America. When Benjamin Franklin was returning from the last meeting of…
Read MoreWho is This That Darkens Counsel?
A few days ago, I was speaking to a friend about the previous Sunday’s sermon. When he had heard that I was still serving a parish — yes, at my advanced years, somehow funked retirement, I did – he had…
Read MoreOn Not Giving the Snake the Last Word
That bright morning the sun pleasantly warmed the awakening world. Another light in the sky, however, caught the attention of a stegosaurus nonchalantly munching in a grove of ferns. The quickly moving light, flaming bright — or was it the…
Read MoreKeepin’ It Real
When I took a church in Petersburg, Alaska, I had to head up there before my wife was able to leave California. She taught at a year-round school and her contract didn’t end until September. So, I and our preschool…
Read MoreThe Full, Real Deal, Body of Christ
Nikki King grew up in a hardscrabble hamlet in one of the hollows of Appalachia. Like many rural communities, it was awash in drug and alcohol addiction. She reports, “At 14 I could’ve pointed out everybody who would be dead.”…
Read More
