In a few days, several hundred Cumberland Presbyterian elders and ministers, along with many of their family members, will gather for 187th General Assembly. This year’s Assembly will be gaveled to order in Palm Harbor, FL, and as usual, we will worship, and then conduct the business of the church. We will learn of the […]
“We do not know… how can we know the way?” Courageous master of the awkward question, You spoke the words the others dared not say And cut through their evasion and abstraction. Oh doubting Thomas, father of my faith, You put your finger on the nub of things We cannot love some disembodied wraith, But […]
This Lenten season had been underway for less than two weeks when news of the administration’s budget outline for the next fiscal year hit the streets. Predictably, the airwaves and internet were immediately filled with both the acclamations of strident supporters and the criticisms of passionate opponents. It seems that once again, we may be […]
“This is the kind of fast day I’m after: to break the chains of injustice, get rid of exploitation in the workplace, free the oppressed, cancel debts. What I’m interested in seeing you do is: sharing your food with the hungry, inviting the homeless poor into your homes, putting clothes on the shivering ill-clad, being […]
Most of us can remember events in our lifetimes that were so profound in their effect on us that we’ll always remember exactly where we were and what we were doing when the events occurred. That day in 1963 when President Kennedy, C. S. Lewis, and Aldous Huxley all died within hours of each other […]
Fearful and forgotten… We’ve heard those terms tossed around quite a bit in the weeks following Election Day. Fear and a sense of being forgotten each can manifest itself in pretty ugly ways at times, but when mixed together with a little frustration and impatience, well, it seems to me you’ve got a formula for […]
This election season has been one of frustration for most of us. As is their wont, the media have appropriated both the airwaves and cyberspace for the money-making opportunities they see in the race. Thus, we have been bombarded with articles, blogs, and editorials explaining how and why each of the main candidates for the […]
We will have much to be thankful for when Thanksgiving rolls around this year. Not that we don’t have plenty of reasons to be grateful already, but in this, the ugliest election year most of us have ever endured, we have been “blessed” with myriad more reasons than usual. First and foremost, we will be […]
I had a lot of different pastors during my first thirty years of life, and for the most part it wasn’t me who was doing the moving around. I suspect it was at least partly because the communities of faith of which I was a part at the time were some of the larger in […]
It’s campaign season, and with that realization also comes the realization that for a couple of months anyway, the hyperbole, the accusations and recriminations, the name-calling, and the apocalyptic warnings that seem more and more to be the norm in our body politic will reach epic levels. I can’t wait. Well, actually I can wait. […]
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