The proud Peony is an old-fashioned perennial plant that blooms in the days leading up to Memorial Day in the United States. Found in several
A Monumental Challenge: Reflections and Hope for Sacred Stones and Sweet Forgiveness
AThe urge to react to the unspeakable tragedy of racial hatred and violence in Charlottesville is understandable. We want to do something. Yet, the
Let’s Take Back Thanksgiving
As our school-children know, Thanksgiving extends all the way back to the very founding settlements of the English-speaking Christians in what is now
Honor the Past to Build the Future: Lessons from John Randolph Lane of Chatham County, North Carolina in 1903
This morning I read the ending chapter of a fine volume that I read two years ago in its entirety. The author became a friend and I have valued his
Thanksgiving: The Essential Ingredient to True Christian Worship
Our reading for this Thanksgiving Day service is a Psalm that is entitled in the King James, “A Psalm of praise.” But the Hebrew word for Praise here,
A Divine Recipe for a Transformative Thanksgiving: An Exposition of Psalm 100
I want to bring you a message taken from the Psalms that forms the core of our hymnody—the old 100th—“A Psalm of praise.” But the Hebrew word for