Monthly Archives: July 2009

Like many of you, I admire words and how even the simplest of thoughts can be strung together until their beauty shines brighter than the sum total of the words themselves. I’ve come to love reading Mary Pipher – known … Continue reading →

By adulthood, we’re good at burying our secret mistakes in places where they’re difficult to find. But some mistakes refuse to stay buried. The story of David and Bathsheba should be rated R for adults as anytime someone breaks the … Continue reading →

Every time I read something wise or wonderful and see that it was written by “Anonymous,” I cringe. It’s often a cop-out for not finding and crediting the person who actually wrote the piece. The most flagrant example occurs with … Continue reading →

David was the smallest son of Jesse who grew in stature until even today he’s considered the greatest king in all Israel’s history. Every encounter, every battle, every challenge set before him was successfully engaged. David entered the time in … Continue reading →

Here’s what moved me in Anne Lamott’s book, Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life: Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you’re conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about … Continue reading →

There’s a less-than-subtle mixing of King David’s public and private life in this text. On the surface, it’s one of the cutest tales in the Bible if you can animate the story in your imagination. Here’s a king so full … Continue reading →

Before Al Gore won his Oscar and became the darling of Hollywood … before the late Jerry Falwell claimed “Satan is using the talk about global warming among evangelicals to distract Christians away from preaching the gospel and toward environmentalism” … Continue reading →

Robert Fulghum (pronounced full-jum – even with two vowels, read it as if it was only one syllable) leapt upon the national scene two decades ago with his wildly popular collection of our generation’s wisdom literature, All I Really Need … Continue reading →

On this weekend we’ve celebrated our nation’s 233rd birthday, the hard task of nation building has turned into perhaps the more difficult task of sustaining this nation. That implies our work has turned into vigilance over the needs of our … Continue reading →

The new face for Baptists is here this week in Houston at the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly. Trust me, there are plenty of gray-haired folks here – sadly a good number of them are those whom I remember from … Continue reading →