It was a muggy night, and we sat on old couches from the 1970s in a concrete building. We had landed in Ivory Coast, West Africa, less than 48 hours before, and we were [...]

Sermon Conversations with Alex and Aaron There’s only so much we can cover in a Sunday morning gathering! Each week, you’re invited to tune into our LIVE podcast at 11 am on Thursdays – [...]

House of Cards I was going to be famous. Beloved. That was my plan. Bullies beware – Kris (Duncan) was going to “be somebody.” I packed my bags and moved to Los [...]

From 1972 through 1973 I worked in a small, artsy shop dedicated to fabricating lightweight convention displays. The shop owner was a somewhat eccentric architect named Donal McLaughlin. Given his laid back approach to [...]

They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with [...]

I attended private schools and often I heard about “Back East”-- a place where many of the schools’ families had once lived. This legendary region was reputed to be our nation’s epicenter of high culture, [...]

Sermon Conversations with Alex and Aaron There’s only so much we can cover in a Sunday morning gathering! Each week, you’re invited to tune into our LIVE podcast at 11 am on Thursdays – [...]

When Phil and I got married at South Presbyterian Church in March of 1965, he had not been attending a church for several years.  He was a shy, quiet, introvert, but he agreed to [...]

Lately, I’ve been reconnecting with cousins on my mother’s side.  Their families lived in small South Dakota towns and “moving” took place within a small radius.  My mother had fled small town insularity for [...]

Before our daughter was born, I was blissfully unaware of the blizzard of resources at my fingertips designed to enhance parenting skills. Because I believe serious subjects need to be handled with a dose [...]