Recently, I saw this XKCD comic which I found to be hilarious! Now, this is pretty funny not only because that’s what all teachers go through, it is also funny to me because that’s what all pastors and church educators go through, too. Truth is, we churchy type people do not have all the answers…
It seems that God has always been calling to us: Where Are You? Where Are You? It started in the garden. Adam and Eve, they wanted to know more, They wanted to be like God. Then they became ashamed. Knew they had done wrong. And hid from God. And God who came for his evening stroll, Called…
Stephen Hawking has recently been quoted as saying that God did not create the universe and, as I understand it, he gives a fuller explanation about this assertion in his upcoming book. However, I must say that I do not follow his logic. Quoting from that article, Hawking says: “What could define God … as the…
While I do not know if it is, in fact, a universal practice to have church yard sales, it certainly is a significant tradition at nearly ever church with which I have been associated. And what a fascinating thing it is, too! People bring all kinds of things to a yard sale and is is…
Robert West’s book, Saint Francis, is one in a series of life stories entitled Christian Encounters. The series reminds me of some similar sets of books on the lives of the saints. Its diminutive size, at only 7” by 5”, and devotional tone make it very much in line with this tradition of writing. The…
Shepherdess Writes 