I counted my years and found that I have less time to live from here on than I have lived up to now. I feel like that child who won a packet of sweets: he ate the first with pleasure,…

Excerpts from what Alexandra Presta, Executive Editor of the Asbury Collegian, wrote (highlights are mine) —– I don’t know how many people came. I heard tens of thousands, and from how I watched people crowd Hughes Auditorium and line up…

Got one? Good. Then consider this — It’s never too late to be what you might have been. — so now take an appropriate next step.

Becca Ehrlich challenges us with this, from about a month ago — How can we live into God’s invitation for a slower life? The Christian minimalist lifestyle is a good place to start. If we focus on the aspects of…

Clint Benesh is a friend and colleague who recently wrote this while at church camp, and I share it with his graciously expressed permission — This morning at 6:30 about 50 students from many churches gathered together for no other…

Leonard Sweet, about five minutes ago – – – It used to be that people in power and politics hired poets and musicians (e.g. court singers) to help them get their word out and sculpt their image. Now those in…

BY KATE COMPSTON I dream of a church that joins in with God’s laughing as she rocks in her rapture enjoying her art: she’s glad of her world, in its risking and growing: ’tis the child she has borne and…

The one with these words superimposed over a picture of him — People don’t fake depression… they fake being okay. Remember that. Be kind. — just a reminder.

“As many contemporary thinkers have pointed out, when you create an identity by despising other groups, it makes you dependent in many ways on them. Ironically, the ‘other’ becomes part of who you are. You need for them to stay…

We’d talked briefly at an event at a church. He was a 20-something guy, I was just some old guy. We had a couple of things in common, including, I assumed, the church where some of his family members were…