Responsibility, Freedom and Uvalde
It’s incomprehensible that 325 million people can’t figure out how to keep their 18-year-old males from killing us and our
Category: America
Setting the Prisoner Free…
I have come to know Hector Guadalupe through our daughter, first as a cause she believed in and now as
Living Through Exile
I wrote this to our church back at the beginning of April. I hoped, like all of us, that we’d
Safe Distances
It’s not social distancing. It’s just “safe distance.” One of our older ladies’ classes met with me Tuesday morning in
What Can We Say?
Irony contains great truth—that America could be demonstrating its oldest pain so openly on the day celebrating Christian barrier-breaking contains a word from the Lord for us. Deeds, not words.
Memorial Day
On Monday, Memorial Day 2007, Vickie and I went to American Village to attend the Gold Star Memorial Service in
New Ways for a New Time
This is a time of many “firsts.” I suspect this is true of everyone. Our church staff, like all congregations
Grandfather Hopes
This is a pretty serious moment in our country and the world, for so many reasons. Most of us are
Remembering 9-11
Posted by Gary Furr [Now it has been many years since I first published this piece. It remains one of the
D-Day
I lived my third-grade year in Clarksville, Tennessee, an army town dominated then by the presence of Fort Campbell, Kentucky
The Flatpickin' Pilgrim's Progress 