A Future of Change
Many of you have heard this joke about change (or a variation thereof): “How many Baptists does it take to change a light bulb? Eight – seven to praise God for the new bulb...
Many of you have heard this joke about change (or a variation thereof): “How many Baptists does it take to change a light bulb? Eight – seven to praise God for the new bulb...
About thirteen years ago, author Wayne Jacobsen came to Trinity and spent a weekend with us leading some conversations about God’s love. It was a memorable weekend for many of us. I also know...
These words describe what happened to Judas Iscariot, the disciple who betrayed Jesus. Several years ago when some of my colleagues and I were dissing this passage, one of my colleagues said, “What a...
As some of you know, I went to a unique college for the first two and a half years of my experience with higher education. Deep Springs College is located on a working cattle...
The Sermon on the Mount (in the Gospel of Matthew, Chapters 5-7) is Jesus’ longest discourse. He tells his disciples (and the crowd gathered around them) his vision for the world, how his followers...
The year 2020 – and for that matter, the beginning of 2021 – was a challenge for us linguistically. We had to come up with new ways to say, “Unprecedented events” and “Living through...
As I reflect on the changes that are occurring in our world, I am struck by these two biblical verses and the truth that both embody. On the one hand, a new year is...
As you know, holidays can be ambiguous times. For most of us, Thanksgiving was not as happy or festive as it usually is. We may have had turkey, but most of us did not...
It is November, the month in which we celebrate Thanksgiving Day in the United States. It is a day set aside to celebrate. We will eat large amounts of food and relax with family....
The Book of Revelation, the last book of the Bible, has been a mystery to most people since it was written. The book contains strange images and frightening scenes of death and destruction, suffering...