For the last few months, my extended family and I have been getting together on twice-weekly Zoom calls. Every Wednesday and Saturday,..
The announcement came in the Presbyterian Outlook: “It’s official. The 2020 General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) will be held virtually,..
I remember the summer in 1986 when my identity as a storyteller began. After filling my 1968 Buick Wildcat, a classmate that..
I am not a fan of embalming. I’m not eager to talk about it or think about it or recall the graphic..
In Genesis 37 and 39-47 we learn about Joseph, one of the sons of Israel. In a capsule, political and filial intrigue..
I recently finished reading “Spark Joy,” Marie Kondo’s illustrated follow-up to the wildly popular “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.” (There’s also..
I’ll never forget a story from Jim Lowry, then-pastor at Idlewild Presbyterian Church in Memphis, of how each Saturday evening in his..
I feared elevators as a child. In an attempt to lessen my fears, my parents described them as “moving rooms that close..
How in all these years of being a student of the Bible I could have been so wrong about some of its..
Back in late-summer, I gathered up my birth certificate, my social security information and all the other necessary documentation, and I headed..
As I get older, I spend more time in front of the mirror each morning. The issue isn’t vanity — at least..
When I was a kid and asked my dad for money, he would reach into his pocket before I could even finish..
The work of disaster relief is more crucial than words can say — crucial, as in highly important and urgent, but also..
“When have you last had a good session with YOURSELF? Or have you EVER had it out with you?” Taken from “The..
A few months ago I flew to Oklahoma City to keynote at a conference about 90 miles outside of the city. I..
A Lutheran and a Presbyterian walk into a bar … Presbyterian: ‘’Hey friend, the other day I was thinking about you. I..
My father died this spring. He was 96 years old, and he was ready. I’m not sure I was — but I..
This past weekend, as I write these words at the beginning of June, a large collection of influential evangelical pastors and leaders..
Any experienced wedding-goer knows what to expect. After the preliminaries are over, it’s time for the preacher to inch forward. Time to..
Two ice cream trucks came to our community when I was a child. The first sold Eskimo Pies, Bomb Pops and Orange..
I made a passing remark during a class about Karl Barth meeting with Billy Graham. My students were all over it. “Karl..
According to historians, Hadrian, the Roman emperor who ruled Rome from 117 to 138 A.D., ordered his soldiers to build a wall between Britain and Scotland,..
“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall …” So begins Robert Frost’s famous poem “Mending Wall” from 1914 — musing on presumably..
The writer of Colossians is a bit of a genius. I don’t know that he always gets the credit he deserves. His..
Squish. My shoe hit the first of what would be many puddles that day. I knew it was fruitless to try to..
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