Tom Dooley
Some years back Vickie and I vacationed near Boone, NC, home of Doc Watson. We stayed in a place with
Category: Memory
From Here to Okay
This song speaks for itself. It came to me during the summer. The hook was a quote from a news
Remembering Martin Luther King
Fifty years ago this week, Martin Luther King’s life was frozen in time for the whole world. His words keep
Reality
Someone asked me for this short paragraph from my sermon yesterday. I thought I might as well share it with
In Memory of a Dhogg
My kids are headed our way from NY for the holiday, but had the sadness of the death of their
Where Were You When President Kennedy Was Shot?
It rolled at you across the land at 1800 miles per hour, hauling darkness like plague behind it….we saw the
Remembering 9-11and 9-15
So now here it comes again. For many, a very painful day, still and always. For all of us who
Love Lifted Me: a 9-11 Story
Sometimes hope only bubbles up in the small delicate places that are almost unnoticed among the debris of history What
Grief Work in the Basement Garden
This blog is drawn in part from some chapters I’m writing for a forthcoming book on prayer from Insight Press.
Say Hello to Porky for Me…
In 2001 I was invited to speak at my college, which fulfilled a dream from my college days. It was,
