Anyone else wake up tired? Easter Monday is a day for taking a big exhale. If you work in and for the church, you just finished the biggest week and high, holy Sunday of the year. You are also carrying…
It’s Eastertide! This joyful season is a continuation of our celebrations from Easter Sunday. For seven weeks each year the church observes a season of Eastertide. The scriptures focus on the resurrection stories of Jesus. I grew up in a…
These orchids from Thailand are endangered. Whole regions are absent their beauty although they used to grow wild in many places around the region. I took these photos as I walked the trails in an orchid farm near Chiang Mai.…
Easter ~ Holy Week Remembered Blessed Easter to you. This gallery of Lenten Lights is a remembrance of Holy Week. When accounting theologically for the mystery of Easter, neither the agony nor the pain of Holy Week entirely departs, yet we practice the resurrection of letting it…
Holy Week | PostcardsEaster My final post in this series of digital postcards continues the theme of bringing together our Spring Break travels with Holy Week. This postcard offers a Malabar Tree Nymph from our visit to the Butterfly Garden in…
Holy Week Guided Meditations for Walking the Labyrinth If you have access to a labyrinth, to walk, or even to trace with a stylus or your fingers, you may find these guided meditations useful in the approaching Holy Week. They are…
Twenty-Third Psalm | Part 2 Note: This year for Lent my congregation, Glendale Baptist Church, is immersing itself in Psalm 23. Last week I posted the first part of a sermon I preached several years ago. (You can read Part 1 here.) Here…
Ecclesiology andEthnography (church and research) Sitting outside this evening feeling the warm wind and watching the rolling clouds, I’m thinking back over the last couple of days. The Ecclesiology and Ethnography Conference unfolded Monday and Tuesday in St. Paul, Minnesota.…
Commencement:Baptist Seminary of Kentucky Today I was honored to join the faculty, trustees, staff and students of Baptist Seminary of Kentucky at Georgetown Baptist Church for their Eighth Commencement Ceremony. They graciously invited me to bring an address. (For seminary graduation this…