Benjamin: A short story
“Master, stop!” The disciples turned and saw a man running after them, the sort of man who didn’t usually have to run...
Blue-eyed Snake
What in the world is a blue-eyed snake? A sign that things are surely changing, that what is old is sloughing off,..
Scrolls
1. How can you say, “We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us,” when, in fact, the false..
God gives us a story
Flannery O’Connor prays: “Dear God, tonight it is not disappointing because you have given me a story. Don’t let me ever think,..
Remembering
Where I left the car keys, the remote for the TV, that letter from the lawyer, my spectacles and pills. I must..
Drift
For the 2018 graduating class of Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary Three hundred fifty million years ago an urge so deep no tongue..
Out!
When I was a child we didn't have Lent,
not down in Nashville, Tennessee,
where my father was a Presbyterian minister,
That's not to say there wasn't any of that "giving up"
business going on;
It's just that Presbyterians didn't do it.
Oh, we waved our fronds as we went into the sanctuary
on Palm Sunday,
and we observed Holy Week,
the most memorable day being Friday
when we had hot cross buns and didn't go to school,
but went instead to the worship service downtown,
and listened to one of those Last Words Sermons
and afterwards ate at the B & W cafeteria.
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