I have not been comfortable with the ending of Mark’s Gospel since my first reading of it.  The Bible I was given as a third grader was the one I […]

To mock your reign, O dearest Lord, they made a crown of thorns  . . .They could not know, as we do now . . .Your sorrows heal our own.To […]

I confess that even typing the title of this piece makes me shudder.  God’s hate?  As a child I was told that was a phrase you should never use.  There […]

I had begun writing this article prior to last Sunday’s announcement about a change in my appointment.  The article is therefore all the more fitting and, for me anyway, apropos.  […]

I talked to the clergy in our district at sub-district meetings recently about being grounded:  being told to “ground yourself” before prayer by putting feet on the floor, your shoulders […]

Connor Hughes is an outstanding young man:  a member of 519church in Cary and recipient of a full scholarship to Appalachian State University, he graduated with a degree in political […]