Sep 26, 2025 | Pondering and Kindling
What a time to be alive as a Christian! What’s going on? What a time to be alive as an ordained minister, joyful in the privilege of serving in clergy leadership for over 70 years Though 91, My praying and pondering seems to focus more on the...
Sep 24, 2025 | Pondering and Kindling
On Sept.10, Charlie Kirk was speaking at an outdoor event, discussing mass shootings in the U.S., with an attendee, when a single shot rang out, striking Kirk. I doubt if a day has passed since there was not some media reference to this senseless violence.This murder...
Nov 21, 2024 | Pondering and Kindling
I titled my last article WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE, noting the fact that there is a new denomination in the Christian faith world: THE GLOBAL METHODIST CHURCH. I know this raises questions, “Isn’t this going against the stream?” In a study published in...
Nov 15, 2024 | Pondering and Kindling
What a time to be alive! I don’t know many people…in fact, I don’t know anybody that is making that observation with the emotion I make it. And with all sorts of reasons, including personal timing. What a time to be alive. Our two national political parties...
Jul 16, 2024 | Pondering and Kindling
O.J. Simpson, the Juice, died on April 10, at age 76. One news columnist opened his story with these words, “It marked the end of a long and turbulent life marked by poverty. survival, riches, violence, and stardom.”The centerpiece of the television reporting was a...
May 23, 2024 | Pondering and Kindling
The article had a bold-face title: Methodists Keep Up With the Times. My friend had saved it from The Wall Street Journal (May 10) because he knew I would be interested. Just reading the title, had I not known what the article was about, I would have pronounced...
