Spirituality. Politics. Music. Life.
A reminder that Connections Band will be in concert this Friday night at Lovers Lane UMC in Dallas. Here are the details: Connections Band Tribute to Dan Fogelberg Friday, May 2nd, 7 pm Asbury Hall, Lovers Lane UMC 9200 Inwood Road Dallas, Texas 75220 214.691.4721 As many of you will remember, our tribute show to […]
Read MoreOver the weekend, news broke of conservative elements within the United Methodist Church attempting to sway votes at the General Conference by providing cell phones to international delegates from Africa and elsewhere. On the one hand, this move might be passed off as simply the kind of politics that goes on during a conference like […]
Read More(Note: as “Earth Week” draws to a close, I offer this edited sermon text from two weeks ago. You can actually hear the slightly modified spoken version by clicking<here.) “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear. For life is more […]
Read MoreAs you know, my blog’s been down and out for three months. But, as you might imagine, that hasn’t stopped me from blogging. How, you say? Well, the truth is that I’ve always cross-posted many of my blog entries to other sites, depending upon the content. So, that’s what I’ve been doing quite a bit […]
Read MoreWanted to blog about this quickly this morning, because it seems to be breaking on the blogs, and it involves an actual friend of mine… David LaMotte is a truly fine songwriter friend from the great city of Asheville, North Carolina. I was overhearing some audio from the Huffington Post this morning, and thought “that […]
Read MoreAnother loss of not having the blog these past few months is not being able to tell you all the incredible stuff happening with Connections Band. Because it’s been an absolutely cool couple of months with four great shows. We set a goal of playing about a show a month this year. But because of […]
Read MoreIn the context of early 2008 –with the “Surge” apparently reducing violence in Iraq, with the US Economy in the tank, and with everybody fixated on the presidential primaries as a way to take our minds off the past seven years –it may well be that nobody wants to hear any additional analysis of the […]
Read MoreIf you put together a list of the five people in Dallas who do the most to help the poor, Larry James would surely be on that list. Larry’s been a friend for over fifteen years now, and I have been and admirer of his for all of that time. He began ministry as a […]
Read MoreHaven’t done a “Things to Like About Texas” entry in quite a while. My friends/family in Atlanta added that fair burg to this list. And I added several more to the international category. They’ve got an asterisks by them. (Did I mention that I always loved geography?) If you think of you own, email or […]
Read MoreA little more on my blog on military deaths… Kim emailed yesterday to ask a good question: “What are the leading causes of death for each of these years/eras? Is there any data on this?” Don’t know why I didn’t stop to ask that question myself. On Sunday, I was in such a hurry to […]
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