For many it is the end of the work week,  TGIF!  Weary, are you?  There are different kinds of tired.  There is the fatigue that we experience after a day of physical labor when we crave a hot shower and… Continue reading

Everyone of us has done things we hope never make it to the light of day.  Hurtful words, cruel acts, lust indulged, advantage taken, greed run rampant are just a few of those regrettable acts.  Over the years I have heard some… Continue reading

Remember the fable about a tortoise and a rabbit? It’s so improbable! Wearied by the rabbit’s constant boasting,  the turtle challenged him to a race.  What kind of race would this be? The quick rabbit and a short-legged, heavy-shelled turtle… Continue reading

At the edges of society there are radicals, those who are committed to change, who aim at provoking revolutionary transformation.  The ‘radical right’ aims to dismantle the social welfare structure; the ‘radical left’ uses the state to redistribute wealth. Most… Continue reading

I awakened this morning around 3 worrying, giving things to the Lord, then taking them back!  Do you ever do that?  If we want to worry, there are surely plenty of things to occupy our time.  Wars, terrorism, aging, financial… Continue reading

When Lloyd C. Douglas, author of The Robe, was a university student, he lived in a boarding house. An elderly, retired music teacher, infirm and unable to leave the apartment, resided on the first floor. Douglas and the man had… Continue reading

Simon and Garfunkel released  “Bridge Over Troubled Water” the year that I started high school.  The 60’s brought a kind of revolution to the United States. Civil rights struggles brought riots to the streets. The Vietnam war divided the nation. … Continue reading

In the middle of a mess, when a crisis strikes, do you ever just want to scream, “I quit!”?  In four decades of serving God’s church as a pastor I confess that I have wanted to leave my post on… Continue reading

On my travels over the weekend, I spent a couple of hours at the National Museum of the US Air Force.  Within just a few years of building of the first successful airplane by the Wright brothers,  the Army looked… Continue reading

I looked over the group in the room. There was a lot of pain there: poverty, addiction, multiple failed marriages, a couple of children born without an intact family. I pondered the why of those lives so marred with pain… Continue reading