Robin and I have been traveling over the past month. For one week in the middle of our vacation, I attended the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) in Pittsburgh where the church had its biennial meeting. There were many opportunities for worship, prayer, conversation and observing the business of the assembly. I had […]
Laundry Love
Imagine living in a World where everyone had your back. Imagine living in a World whereeveryone had enough to eat because you do. This imaginary World looks out for the most vulnerable of its members and welcomes widows and war vets and children and strangers and skeptics to a table which is large enough to […]
Biblical Feng Shui
Feng shui — ˈʃweɪ/ fung-SHWAY,[1] formerly /ˈfʌŋ ˌʃuːi/ FUNG-shoo-ee;[2] Chinese: 風水, pronounced [fɤ́ŋ ʂwèi]), or Feng shui, is a Chinese system of geomancy believed to use the laws of both Heaven and Earth to help one improve life. Most often this is applied to building design and extended to interior space design. It turns out […]
Bible Talk – Community on Tap
This Wednesday night we’ll be looking at the Bible again. I think it will be helpful to continue this conversation as there is so much to be said on the way we read the text. I’m going to welcome you into my brainiac and let you read my notes, sorry it’s nothing fancy but its got […]
Freedom Isn’t Free
In preperation for July 4th, I want to remind everyone that freedom isn’t free, or at least the freedom we’ve come to know. Many years ago when this fine country was founded, women, men and children fled their homes boarded ship and sailed to occupy what we now call North America. In middle school history […]
The Slow Work of God
Living in a fast paced world like ours, where expectation and realization have almost merged into one, it is easy to become impatient. It is easy to expect everything to run with swift efficiency and move us to realize our hopes as quickly as we have them. I’m not sure if this says more about […]
Motherly Love
My mom is an interesting lady. She hates Christmas but still asks for an Elvis calender every year. She reads 3 books every week and has done so since I can remember. She can’t cook and loves TV dinners. She watches more Fox News than Mitt Romney and stands for conservative Christian politics but wouldn’t […]
Free from what? Free for what?
Freedom. It’s one of, if not the major thrust of Paul’s letter to the Galatians. It’s the stuff of legendary speeches. It’s the stuff of battle cries. After all “give me freedom or give me death”. And freedom resonates. It resonates because it is a beautifully important reality if we are to realize our potential […]
Not Even
It would seem to make good sense. Just give in a little. Just find a middle ground. Let people practice their faith with a little more ritual involved. People do think differently after all. Yet, for Paul, there can be no giving in on this one point. We have been set free. No longer are […]
June 20th Community on Tap
When you pick up a science textbook, a book on economic theory or the latest Harry Potter book, you approach them all differently. You wouldn’t read a science textbook as a work of pure fiction (unless you read Genesis CH 1-3 as literal of course). So, let’s admit that when we pick up the scriptures to […]