Each year, the PCUSA produces a work calendar designed to aid clergy, as well as other staff and lay leaders, with their planning. I’ve used this calendar for several years since my introduction to Presbyterian life and have found it to be...
As most of you know, my former professor and mentor, John Killinger, died in June. He still feeds and encourages my soul, and always will.
The theme for this year’s Advent and Christmas season is Expectations. Remember when, as a child, this was a magical time?
My longtime friend Buddy Shurden, Emeritus Minister at Large, Mercer University, recently wrote for the publication, Christian Ethics Today. Based on his reading of William Sloane Coffin’s book, The Heart is a Little to the Left: Essays on...
As you know, I grew up a conservative Baptist. No longer in vogue, even in Southern Baptist circles, we had what was called the Six-Point Record System.