Struggling with the Scriptures, some thirty years ago I found myself in a crisis of faith, or was it an awakening to faith? As we looked for a new church, Connie needled me to “just visit” a Methodist church. I quipped, “We will go; I’ll hate it, and that will be that!” Spiritual growth takes […]

A few weeks ago, I camped out on the farm my grandparents purchased a hundred years ago. I awoke before daylight. Overnight, a heavy dew had settled over everything. As I stuck my head out of the rainfly, dew pooled on the flap and baptized the back of my neck. A ghostly fog rose from […]

Mark begins, “Jesus continued down the road.” Faith is a journey. God calls Abram and Sarah “to go to the land that I will show you” (Genesis 12) God calls Moses “to go down into Pharaoh’s land,” face down a superpower, and liberate a people. Jesus traveled from town to town healing people and proclaiming […]

Isn’t the loaf of bread that we break a sharing in the body of Christ? Since there is one loaf of bread, we who are many are one body, because we all share the one loaf of bread. (1 Corinthians 10) Growing up Southern Baptist, I sat in on about 502 masses during my four […]