Easter Monday. The second day of the New Creation. Because I am again serving as pastor to two small congregations, I preached yesterday. I followed the lectionary and used Mark 16:1-8 as the Gospel text. Perhaps because of
Easter Monday. The second day of the New Creation. Because I am again serving as pastor to two small congregations, I preached yesterday. I followed the lectionary and used Mark 16:1-8 as the Gospel text. Perhaps because of
The professor has learned something from his students. The context: I contribute four sessions to a general education course at Southwestern College called “Critical Issues in Health.” It’s an ambitious class that attempts to help students think about the
These days I am near-obsessed by two constants: (1) in church gatherings, young people make up the tiniest sliver of the whole group. I get invited a fair amount to preach here and there and the experience is always the
At home over lunch, I saw on CNN that the grandmother of soap operas, “The Guiding Light,” will air its final program on September 18, 2009. After 72 years it is being canceled. This soap opera started on radio in
I’m helping to teach a class that affords me opportunity to interact with college students about spirituality. In such venues two sets of questions alway arise. I’m thinking about the unhelpful ways we in the ministry often answer them I