I remember the first time in my life I sat down to study the Bible under my own volition. I…
Of all the many sinful patterns of behavior that the American context is so good at highlighting, I think that…
The door to the home office, turns out, is decorative. I type intently, when I hear his little hands wiggling…
“How do you go forward from that?”, I thought, the very first time my uncle told me. I couldn’t have…
One early August Saturday, while most eleven-year-olds slept, Papa Bob invited me on an adventure. We would hunt treasure, he…
Last night, after double-checking to see if all the doors were locked and if all lights had been turned off,…
I do it. You do it. And we all know better. Often it’s when I’m making a berry smoothie. I…
Over the last decade, I’ve spent many hours participating in endurance activities. I’ve run marathons, I ran a fifty-mile ultramarathon,…
Wow, it’s hard to believe, but’s it’s now been a full year since my last day at Glendale First UMC.…
My oldest son, Daniel (we call him Tres), has recently (finally!) gotten obsessed with Harry Potter. This is an exciting…