Our group finishes with Postcards from Babylon on the first Wednesday in March. Our next selection, Praying with the Church by Scot McKnight, will take us through Holy Week. Altogether we plan to spend seven weeks with this book. 1 Prayer is a practice that the vast...
The separation of Church and state is just one of many battlegrounds that prompt public debate among legislators and persons who spend regular time in pews. For example, an opinion piece written by three professors at the University of Virginia School of Law claimed...
Anyone who has an email address or spends time on the internet knows that not all content is safe to download to your computer or phone. There is the risk that a download will install unwanted code on your device. Sometimes the unwanted code is just annoying. However,...
While reading parts of the Book of Daniel, I couldn't help but take a side trip to explore the song's background with the same name. The song Daniel was written by Bernie Taupin and put to music, and recorded by Elton John. The common name is apparently a coincidence....
We finished our discussions of Braving the Wilderness by Dr. Brené Brown. So now we’re ready for our February selection. The book that we’re using as a key resource for our series, the Way, is sure to spark interesting, if not controversial, discussion. In his book,...
This past week I attended a tribute to a friend and colleague, the later Rev. Alonzo Vincent. Born in Chicago in the 1940s, Rev. Vincent experienced life as a prophetic voice commissioned by God and as a black man. Speaker after speaker shared stories of admiration...
FLINT, Mich. (WJRT) - The South Flint Soup Kitchen's Angel Closet provides food and clothing for families in need. Senior Program Manager Katelin Maylum talked about how the organization helps people in need. View the full article at abc12.com
What frightens you? This past week, Christina Caron shared that she was afraid of driving in a New York Times article. As a result, she avoided driving for almost a decade until the pandemic motivated her to face her fears. On the first day of driving school,...
The American Revolution, as taught in history classes across the U.S., was a necessary and heroic struggle for freedom. It was necessitated by unfair taxation without representation in government. Pastors offered moral justification for war from pulpits across the...
A year ago, in a Forbes Magazine article, Tracy Brower wrote that "The pandemic has played havoc with our mental health." Top among reasons that so much isolation is bad for mental health is that "We are hardwired for connection." And the key to feeling connected is...