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This year at Annual Conference, there was a very brief recognition of those of us celebrating “five year” anniversaries in ministry. (Five, ten, fifteen, etc…) For me, the actual number is twenty. Twenty years. Back in those days, you were actually first ordained as a Deacon. To get real technical (and, why not?) my ordination […]
Read MoreToday is our 19-year anniversary. Hard to imagine that so much time has gone by. On our one year anniversary, Dennise said something like “Wow, the year has really flown.” I replied, inelegantly, “Are you kidding? It’s been the longest year of my life.” It wasn’t as bad as it sounds. Well, maybe it was. […]
Read MoreFor those outside our Northaven community, you might be interested in my sermon at our Reconciling United Methodist Church yesterday. Feel free to leave comments if you wish…EF (At one point, you will hear me pause. Our member, George Crawford, was celebrating his 90th Birthday, and perhaps felt a little more freedom than usual to […]
Read MoreI know this will sound like bragging, but I know kids like Zach.I know mothers like Zach’s mothers. God blesses us by bringing them to us as members of the Northaven community.(Sometimes as full members. Sometimes as “friends”) Being a family is hard work. It takes the love and support of many. That “many” ought […]
Read MoreDear General Conference Delegates: While you are still in session in Tampa, there is still time to ask/answer questions about the nature of our global United Methodist Church. If the questions in this blog cannot be answered through the legislative process at this point, perhaps they can be discussed through informal “holy conferencing.” I have […]
Read MoreAnother new song, from the songwriter group. Man o man, am I grateful to them and their continued support and encouragement. Hope you like it… EVERY LOVE YOU FIND I don’t have the words to say That could take your pain away So, let us bear this silence, just us two But when it comes […]
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Far too often, we hide behind masks of status, role, function. Sometimes power. Far too often, we are walking/talking stereotypes. We regress to mean, even those of us who like to think of ourselves as edgy or “alternative.” (Have you ever noticed how much marketing is done to “alternative” people? It’s big business, like everything […]
Read MoreThe magic button — Make Everything OK
Read MoreBelow is video of my closing meditation at the “Good Friday Walk,” sponsored by the Dallas Area Christian Progressive Alliance. The audio’s a bit hard to hear for the first minute…but stay with it….it gets better. Many thanks to them for asking me. (As always, if you like this post, then “share it” or “like” […]
Read More“When despair for the world grows in meand I wake in the night at the least soundin fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,I go and lie down where the wood drakerests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.I come into the peace of wild things who […]
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