by admin | Jan 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s...
by admin | Nov 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
What if there are lots of ways of making meaning of the life of that first-century rabbi? What if we could explore the story and find the ways it has bearing our lives, especially on the eve of an election? Those are my thoughts as I walk the path. Special thanks to...
by admin | Apr 26, 2018 | Uncategorized
The Bible can feel so…what’s the word I’m looking for? Wounding? Irrelevant? Unbelievable? Here’s my attempt at starting a conversation on how we can claim the Bible in its wisdom in ways that make us better lovers of neighbor and self. This is...
by admin | Apr 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
You don’t get assassinated for preaching about love. A Good Friday sermon in eight words. But! It is the Easter season. My technicolor hard-boiled eggs sit uneaten in the fridge (I’ll get to them…tomorrow) and our family has left town and I need to take a break...
by admin | Mar 27, 2018 | Uncategorized
by Leigh DeVries In my first couple years as a youth pastor I worked with and for a self-proclaimed “boy’s club” in the South. My fellow youth ministers all went to the same all-boys school in Nashville and then had gone off to big SEC schools for college. They loved...
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