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: Culture
Your Bag of Wedges: A Commencement Address
I was invited by President Beck Taylor to give the afternoon Commencement Address for Samford University’s winter graduation on Saturday,
Michael Lewis’ Premonition: A Cautionary Tale
REVIEW of Michael Lewis, The Premonition: A Pandemic Story W. W. Norton & Company (May 4, 2021). After retirement I
Poplar Tent Memories: album release
I have updated and re-released an album I put together with some friends ten years ago, POPLAR TENT MEMORIES. The
Remembering 9/11
The Watchers Gary Allison Furr. September 11, 2020 I wasn’t on a plane, or a family member receiving frantic calls,
Ranting the Deadly Sins
My friend LaMon Brown reminded me of this quote from a book i read many times and loved over the
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
The Flatpickin' Pilgrim's Progress 