In my last post, I wrote about the degrees of separation between the readers of the Bible and the people whose experiences of God found their way into the Scriptures.  I talked about the people who had the experiences and...

I’m intrigued by the game “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.”  I’ve never played it, and I doubt that I’d be any good at it since I’m not a movie buff.  But the underlying assumption is interesting:  there are no more...

This morning I was thinking about a decision I made which had some dire immediate consequences, leading to the closure of the church I was pastoring.  It was the right choice but it caused much pain for me and many...

Welcome to a new blog!  This post is an introduction.  There are some previous posts as I was trying to get my thoughts together.  Check some of them out after reading this one. With this blog, I invite you to...

A few years ago there were some major conflicts in our regional church council, the presbytery.  I found myself in the thick of it, sometimes being asked to publicly defend one of the sides.  I am willing to speak my...

I want to launch this blog out into the blogosphere.  I had hoped to have it in the form I wanted by last September, and then by November, and now by this March.  But I keep imagining how you will...

Many years ago my our family inherited a couple of goats, Prudence and Saphire.  We were renting a farmhouse and so we had a space for them to roam about in.  But we needed to purchase some alfalfa hay to...

Somewhere deep inside I have always known that all that I have and all that I am I have received as a gift.  The world is here; it is a given.  My life and my consciousness are givens.  I think...

Every once in a while, when someone notices a similarity between one of my sons and me, they will say, “You look like Joel,” or “You act like Aaron,” or “You think like Blair.”  While I appreciate the complements, I...

For many years I have asked myself why many Christians seem to believe that God will judge us by our orthodoxy, according to the beliefs which we hold in our minds. I know some of the history of the reformation...