Christmas Time Is Coming
“Christmas TIme’s a-Comin’”is the name of a bluegrass Christmas song. When I was playing a lot more often than these
Helping Alabama’s Children
Alabama Coalition for Healthy Mothers and Children This Giving Tuesday, consider making a small donation to help mothers and children
Everything Happens for a Reason? Review
Review of Bowler, Kate. Everything Happens for a Reason and Other Lies I Have Loved. Random House Publishing Group. By
Grandfather Hopes
This is a pretty serious moment in our country and the world, for so many reasons. Most of us are
A Prayer for Simplicity
Invocation and blessing offered at the October 8, 2019 meeting of the Vestavia Hills Chamber of Commerce by Dr. Gary
Remembering 9-11
Posted by Gary Furr [Now it has been many years since I first published this piece. It remains one of the
Four Echoes of the Divine
From Sunday’s Sermon “In his book Simply Christian NT Wright says there are four traces of the call of God
Staying Put
A friend asked me to reflect on what you learn by staying in one place for twenty five years.
Grace
I live in the vulnerability of my need for grace. Grace I ought to give, grace I hope someone else
D-Day
I lived my third-grade year in Clarksville, Tennessee, an army town dominated then by the presence of Fort Campbell, Kentucky
