Blog, Life in the Church
To Advent or Not to Advent, That is the Question
November 28, 2018Being raised in a traditional mill village Southern Baptist church and later practicing faith in…
Blog, Life in the WorldManic Heights. Welcome to the Neighborhood
November 2, 2018In his prophetic book The Secular City (Macmillan Company; New York: 1965) liberal Harvard Divinity…
Blog, Life in the WorldThe Language of Faith
October 1, 2018The Apostle Paul’s advice to the Corinthian church about the disruption of glossolalia can extend…
Blog, Life in the ChurchPraying for Your Spiritual Leaders
April 17, 2018In retirement the question I am most often asked by church members is, “how should…
Blog, Life in the WorldCulturally dysfunctional?
March 16, 2018It was supposed to be another hot cup of java before teaching morning classes at…
Blog, Life in the ChurchThat Was Then, This Is Now
February 12, 2018Go ahead, think it! This is another geezer whine about the times. Let me assure…
Blog, Life in the ChurchThe Resume Button
January 17, 2018There was a subtle yet profound object lesson during our drive back to North Charleston…
Blog, Life in the ScripturesWhat 94 Students Taught Me This Semester
December 14, 2017The other day a Post-it Note fell out of an old school paper file I…
Blog, Life in the ChurchIdentify the Cuspers
October 20, 2017Thirty-eight years ago I asked God for guidance during a particularly difficult time in our…
Blog, Life in the ChurchThe Undisciplined Life
September 22, 2017One day I listened to a sermon that altered the direction of my life in…
Blog, Life in the ChurchLife in a Bubble
August 14, 2017The community surrounding our condominium complex was overrun with a law enforcement presence last week.…
Blog, Life in the ChurchThe Chapter 13 Leader
July 21, 2017Pastor’s and spiritual leaders joined the Good to Great 1 cheering section soon after publication of…
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Crevices, Chasms, and Gold Mines
June 14, 2017Two thousand years later evangelical Christians basically agree that the command in the Great Commission…
Blog, Life in the ChurchResurrection People
April 19, 2017In a crazy world professional golfer Bernhard Langer got tangled in a voter fraud story…
Blog, Life in the ChurchThe Baby Boomerang Thing
March 29, 2017It was a lament of the baby boomer generation, the 1961 British parody song My…
Blog, Life in the ChurchThe Teaching Fault-line
March 13, 2017Perhaps it’s a minefield every newbie in the School of Christian Studies has to tiptoe…
