I think part of the problem with our society today is that nothing truly impacts us emotionally anymore, especially if we've been through it before. Oh sure, we're offended by about everything under the sun, but no longer are we shocked or saddened. The first news stor...

Our Homecoming service is over for another year, and if I say so myself, it was one of our best services this year. You all have said the same thing, just in different words. The number one comment I've received since the closing prayer on Sunday has been, "We had chur...

I recently received a piece of mail asking the church to sponsor a "Sunday Voter Registration Day." It provided all the guidelines for how to get people registered to vote and how to encourage voter participation in the upcoming midterm elections.

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They tell me it's football season. I know this is true because, well, as I've just said, they tell me. As some of you have rightly guessed, I'm pretty good at croquet and decent at badminton. That's the extent of my athleticism beyond the fantasy baseball teams I had i...

I think if I had one wish to use, I would wish everyone in the world had enough. It's a wish I believe would take care of a lot of specific wishes, and I don't think it would be terribly easy to abuse after I made it. If we all had enough, we'd have money to pay our bi...

I think each of us remembers where we were on this date seventeen years ago. I was in an art history class in high school, then in sophomore social studies, and my friends were coming into class explaining what was happening. My class was then combined with another one...

Each of us has, at some point in life, wished for a blank slate. We want a chance to start over, to not make the mistakes we've made in the past, to get it right on the second time around. Part of this desire stems from our regrets over the past; part of it comes from...

I went to a birthday party on Friday, and dinner was at a Brazilian steakhouse in Lexington -- specifically one in the new Summit at Fritz Farm. I have lived in another state, I have been trained by different churches and denominations, and I even spent a week in Asia,...