The phone rang at 3am with almost unspeakable heartache on the other end. I soon passed through the ER’s metal detectors and toward ICU. The victim vacillated between this life and the one to come. I found her daughter sitting in pajamas in the middle of an empty hallway. I introduced myself as her mother’s […]
Monthly Archives: October 2017
Many Hands. Many Stories. One Church. Belmont UMC is blessed with many pastors, scholars, and church leaders who worship and serve with us. On Wednesday afternoon, I thought how wonderful it would be to glean some of our favorite suggestions for devotional practices. I need to compile a list of our clergy and church leaders […]
I awoke at 3am, perhaps, because of the NYT interactive graphic “477 Days, 521 Mass shootings, Zero Action from Congress” I read before bed. Unable to return to sleep, I went and dusted off a sermon from 2015. Sadly, it was easy to rework it for another shooting. I awoke grieving for Las Vegas, […]