Over the past few days, the world has seemed even stranger and more foreign than usual. Bitter exchanges over the appointment of a new Supreme Court nominee have reached fever pitch. Whether or not …
The Liturgy of Love
Of all the things cancelled by COVID and its impact on culture, if I’m honest, one of the things I was most concerned about losing was college football. I love college football. One of our favorite …
The Fourth Parable
Three parables of Jesus have haunted me. I’ve read the Bible multiple times, and each time I read it I’m confounded by these three. They are all about the same thing, and they couldn’t be more …
Love Lavishly, Part II
For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. Do not be surprised, my brothers and sisters, if the world hates you. We know that we have passed from death to …
Love Lavishly
Love is perhaps the most overused word in the English language, the most powerful force in the universe, our most desperate need, and yet the quality the world needs most right now. Our theme this …
The Empty Tree
I have an empty tree. For 20 years, every first day of school at Grace, we would line our crew of three little girls in front of the “back-to-school tree,” a crepe myrtle in our backyard that …