Finding the Sacred in the Ordinary
Time once was, in the not too distant past, that you would be shunned for appearing in public on Sunday morning in anything less than your best “go to meeting” clothes and seen anyplace other than your neighborhood church at the end of a tree lined street. But in less than a generation, churches, synagogues, […]
It was a chilly night. People were gathered around a charcoal fire on the ground. There was only silence from those gathered about watching the embers glow. The sparks flying like shooting stars into the dark sky. Then a lowly servant girl turned to Peter and broke the silence, “You also are not one of […]
It’s that time of year once again. When day becomes longer than night. When brown becomes green. When what’s dead becomes alive. When we open long shuttered windows. When there is love in the air. It is Spring! For the younger among us that means Spring Break; the end of a school year; the hope […]
It is so easy to ignore at first when you see it. You may see fresh scars on their arm and think they scratched themselves accidentally. You may see healed scars and think it’s a birthmark. But if only you could see their heart. That is where the true cuts are still fresh and the […]
“So did you have a special Valentine’s date this year?” That question drives a stake through the heart of most single adults born after 1980. “Any wedding bells in your future?” That is the question that keeps most young adults from visiting relatives. They sit in the car both dreading and rehearsing answers to this […]
On the morning of February 15th, the world woke to the heinous news of 21 Christian men from Egypt being beheaded together by the hands of ISIS terrorists. Understandably, many are calling for an escalation in the war against the leadership of ISIS. Yet we hear so few calling for the salvation of the […]