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And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13

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Stress Revealed: Munchos and Whoppers

I’m not sure where the craving came from. My commitment to take better care of my health – food and activity – was firm. I had incorporated bike riding into my lifestyle, even. People in the neighborhood wave as I bike to the church for the day. The Flying Nun I’m not. I’m just trying…

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents – a Book Blog

We have been inundated recently with book lists that encourage us to learn about and practice racial reconciliation. That is certainly justified, given our reluctance to learn lessons from history, and our stubbornness to advocate for equity in the long term. Even as we read all we can, sometimes all the book subjects seem to…

Learning to Speak God from Scratch – a Book Blog

A few things caught my attention right from the start when this book was published in late summer, 2018. First, the book was written by former Religion News Service journalist Jonathan Merritt, and I’ve been a fan for a few years. He is a freelance writer now, focusing his blog on Faith & Culture, while…

Here We Are

God of Creation, We watch as the beauty of Your earth is devastated and ravaged by fire and earthquakes and hurricanes. We watch in horror as the flames skip from one town to another, indiscriminately. California, Colorado, Oregon, Washington. Has less than a year passed Since our siblings in Australia felt the same fears? The storms raged in…

The Greatest Privilege

At Arapaho UMC in Richardson, Texas, we are in the middle of a sermon series titled, “Unmasked.” We are acknowledging various attitudes, feelings, and actions that need to be unmasked in our world right now. This past Sunday’s sermon was about Unmasking Justice, listen to Pastor Scott share about it if you’d like. I was…

The Bike Ride

I’ve begun riding my bike again. What started out as a “let’s try it” challenge has become a bit of a necessity. We are down to one automobile at Sweeneys on the Creek, and with the church located a little more than a mile away, I’ve taken to biking there for work. It’s been nice…