Last Sunday I had the opportunity to preach at our church's Chinese worship service for the first time. The Chinese ministry has met for many years there, but I have never participated with them before Sunday. They choose to have their own separate worship service where everything is in Chinese unless the preacher's message in …
Monthly Update to Top 10 All-Time Posts
Each month I update the list of the top 10 most visited posts since this blog began in 2011. We saw several changes during the month of June with the addition of the posts Quit Holding Social Media to a Different Standard and The Paula Deen Controversy. The two posts that dropped out of the top 10 in …
I’m Tired of Conflict
I'm tired of so much of daily life and experience revolving around conflict. It dominates a disproportionate share of the news and far too much of our personal and professional lives and experiences. I'm tired of watching national newscasts only to see the latest iteration of countries fighting with one another, rogue administrations fighting against …
Looking at the Sunny Side
It was with great sadness that we had to remove a 150-year-old tree from our back yard this week. It was a grand, old natural masterpiece that towered over the rest of the neighborhood trees, reaching somewhere between 2-3 times the height of our modest 2-story Cape Cod home. Its circumference at the smallest part …
The Paula Deen Controversy
Has there been a single major newscast in the past week that did not talk about the current Paula Deen controversy? Not that I can recall. For those of you living under a rock, she has been in the news for revealing in a deposition that she used a racial slur - the so-called "N-word" …
