Snowflakes drifted onto the windshield as the temperature dipped along with the sun. I drug my weak body into the seat, using every ounce of …
Read More »Washing Her Feet
As a shy and insecure 13-year-old, I had a thousand different thoughts when my youth pastor asked me if I wanted to go on an …
Read More »Good Enough
Her brother and sister were the good ones. Mom and Dad were so proud of them. She, well, not quite so much. Even as a …
Read More »Bonded Relationships
Checking the Erosion of Relational Quality I grew up financially poor but relationally rich. My father was a sharecropper and my mother occupied her time …
Read More »Kindness is Christ Within
I went to the altar one Sunday morning in the Church of God when I was twelve years old and felt called to ministry, but …
Read More »Waiting
Not long ago I found myself waiting, yet again, to board a flight. But this wait was a little bit different than others: I had …
Read More »When Proof Isn’t Enough
By the time I’d finished high school I felt like I had been prepared to defend my faith pretty well. I knew all of the …
Read More »Bigotry In the Church
The level of prejudice in the church is disheartening, if not astounding. And it goes way back and is not just recent in nature. When …
Read More »Racism
Well, hey, I left that church.” No one working in ministry wants to hear that, and I peered at this affable gentleman across our glasses …
Read More »Cancelling Church and Getting “Sick”
The Coronavirus is not a game or “foreign” agent that can be politicized or explained away. It is simply a virus on a mission to …
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