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,
Reflections on faith, music, and community by Gary Allison Furr
I was invited by President Beck Taylor to give the afternoon Commencement Address for Samford University’s winter graduation on Saturday,
Some people can look at the big picture and take it in. Others of us have to plant down on
Every Mother’s Day for the last dozen years of my ministry as a pastor, we’d combine Mother’s Day with Graduate
This song speaks for itself. It came to me during the summer. The hook was a quote from a news
On Monday, Memorial Day 2007, Vickie and I went to American Village to attend the Gold Star Memorial Service in
This is a time of many “firsts.” I suspect this is true of everyone. Our church staff, like all congregations
Those of us who are pastors consider ourselves called into ministry, but sometimes you realize what a wonderful privilege it
This is a pretty serious moment in our country and the world, for so many reasons. Most of us are
“Ministers and congregation both, they came to church year after year, and who is to say how if at all their
Of late, not only in my ministry work, but through the connections of social media, I have been highly conscious