“Why, Soitenly!”

Friday night I was trying to stay awake long enough through Butch Cassidy and SomeDunce Kid (Newman and Redford … great movie. “SomeDunce Kid” was the name given to the movie by MAD Magazine years ago. A great publication, though my grandmother swore it was Communist propaganda.) to the scene where they jump off the [...]

I love to read. At one time, I had well over 2,000 books on my shelves … not a large library by most preacher’s standards, but more books than I’d ever owned. When we moved from Long Beach, I got rid of about 90% of them.
But I still love to read. Ordered a couple of [...]

I have written (often) of my projects that (often) go awry. For that matter, “awry” somewhat characterizes many aspects of my life.
So, in my defense, I thought I’d share with you at least one project that went from start to finish without any good blogs! It did stretch out over about a week, working in [...]

When I was preaching, hardly a week went by without some type of notice of the latest seminar or book on how to “do church” more effectively.
I attended classes at lectureships and listened to preachers talk about how their church is so much better than “my” church because they have finally figured out the missing [...]