When I was a boy I was afraid of the dark. We lived in a trailer, behind which we had built a small cinder block house with a washing machine, tools,...

The older I grow the more I resemble both my mother and my father. When I look in the mirror I see many of my father’s features in my own face....

I love to go hiking in the Nashville area’s many parks. Our city offers the blessing of many public parks both within the city limits and nearby. I experience a sense...

Over the years, I have learned that I will never forget books or plays that continuously repeat the same thing over and over. Even Hollywood has learned the lesson of repetition....

I once spoke to a person who told me that she refuses to read Revelation. When I asked her why, she told me that all the violent imagery and scenes of...

I still remember very well one of the first racially integrated church services I and some members of our predominantly white church attended. South Africa was emerging slowly from years of...

In our reading on Monday, we read how Paul’s discernment leads to a confrontation between the Spirit of Jesus and a false spirit. Yet we can also understand this moment as...

In a world fraught with intrigue and composed of opposing parties often fighting for dominance, today’s psalm comes as a refresher course in what God has in mind for us. The...

In today’s reading, we find incredible descriptions of the difference in worldview that exist between Jews and Gentiles, between those enslaved to the ways of the world and those set free...

Today’s reading consists of many layers of past experiences and future expectations laced with the role that business concerns and cultural norms play in the eventual imprisonment of Paul and Silas....