COPIED —- “You still have time…”That’s what we keep telling ourselves.And maybe we do. But maybe we don’t.The truth is—we never really know. Time isn’t generous.It doesn’t pause. It doesn’t warn.It slips through our fingers quietly, like sand—soft, silent, and…

Dr. Wm. Mallard was a seminary professor who’s a hero of mine. Way too many reasons to tell why here, but one of his many quoteables is this —- Tell us what you’re for, not just what you’re against. —…

COPIED, exactly as I found it —- Today is Father’s Day and my 89th birthday. My name is Joseph, and I am sitting here, in a retirement home, with a plate of dumplings in front of me. I don’t know…

Jesus: Luke 15:25-32. That older brother is sometimes a younger sister or a cousin or a neighbor or…us, too, missing the whole point of all three parables in Luke 15.

Bishop Desmond Tutu: “God has a particularly soft spot for sinners. There is hope for us all.” Jesus: Luke 15:11-26.

“Not everything that is faced can be changed,” writes James Baldwin in As Much Truth as One Can Bear, “but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” Hear that in the background? It’s the “yeah, but” machine starting up.…

John Wesley, instrumental in the Methodist movement, has this line attributed to him: “I want my preachers ready to preach, pray, or die.” I was quite young when I first encountered that. My first response was to ask if it’s…

“The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven’t yet come to the of themselves. We’re still trying to give orders, and interfering with God’s work within us.” — A. W.…

Sky McCracken is a colleague and online friend. Here’s what he shared Sunday night — Several have asked for the Bonhoeffer quote from this morning’s sermon. It was taken from the letter ‘‘After Ten Years’ in _Letters and Papers from…