Think back. Think a LONG way back. Think back to the first time you can remember fantasizing about what THE FUTURE might look like. When I think of that time, I immediately think of attending the 1964 World’s Fair in… Continue reading

The circumstance? Or your relationship to the circumstance? Which will have the final say in your life? Last week, during a clergy continuing education event I had the opportunity to watch the movie Invictus again. In case you have not… Continue reading

Last week my wife and I were in Houston, TX visiting kids and grandkids. They live in a lovely area in the northern part of the metro area, bountifully supplied with walking paths and woodland areas. (Which could be the… Continue reading

“Why did you do that?” I have often wondered what it would be like to be a professional athlete and sit in front of a table full of microphones and be asked that question over and over again… about everything.… Continue reading

I did not grow up on a farm. And I think I am the poorer because of it. Here’s why: because of the fact that I didn’t grow up on a farm I did not regularly see corn plants rising… Continue reading

I am not sure you can make a strong case to call any season other than fall the Best Season of the Year. Look at all fall has going for it: comfortably warm daytime temperatures, cool, great-for-sleeping nights, trees exploding… Continue reading

One of the most cherished gifts I received when I graduated from seminary was a cross on a chain. It was a gift from my wife. It is quite an attractive cross, actually. It has a silver backing piece with… Continue reading

 “When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,     the moon and the stars that you have established;  what are human beings that you are mindful of them,     mortals that you care for them?” Psalm 8:3-4, NRSV  … Continue reading

Try as I might, I have to confess that there are several categories of people I really have a hard time extending Christ’s love toward. Some of those categories include: people who are deliberately mean… people who see only the… Continue reading

Things fall apart. Besides being the title of the epic 1958 novel written by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, this statement is one of those pesky immutable truths about life. “Fallingapartness” just seems to be a characteristic that is hard-wired into… Continue reading