faith in community

  One of the first people I told that I was going to retire (after the council president at my church) was a woman I meet with occasionally ...

  I got a call on Monday night from the church administrator at a neighboring congregation.  I knew that their pastor was traveling for mini...

 The first stop on my short sabbatical this summer was Atlanta, where we could spend some quality time with our grandchildren (oh yeah, and ...

 It was back in April, right after Easter, and we were traveling home from Brenham to Montgomery.  Even though we've lived here for awhi...

 One of the most consequential experiences of my short sabbatical this summer happened almost at the end of my time away.  I had spent a goo...

 Last week we headed up to the North Shore of Lake Superior for a one part of my sabbatical.  Most specifically, our destination was my frie...

  We haven't been up on the North Shore for ten years, I think.  I moved down to Texas in 2015, and although we have visited our family ...