In the segregated cemetery in Alta Vista, GA, lie 1,146 African Americans in unmarked graves. Although there is little to no information about the people
One phrase has always jumped out at me. “He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.”
Our house is on fire. It is on fire with memories and old hurts and scars that still tingle and missing limbs that still move, ghost-like in the night.
Meryl Streep is a hypocrite. She is probably the biggest hypocrite in Hollywood, maybe the world. Of course, there are lots of hypocrites in Hollywood. Eva Longoria, Leonardo DeCaprio, Morgan Freeman, George Clooney. Oprah Winfrey is a hypocrite too. That’s right, all of them! They’re all hypocrites.
We’re continuing our way through the Psalms. In this episode it’s Psalms 73-89 and we’re zooming in on the theme of the asking God to punish others.
What we look at matters. We can so easily become it.
For most clergy and lay leaders, a broad smile, an outstretched hand and the willingness to discuss difficult issues like money and mission-funding will connect you. And with connection you can discuss the pledge directly but with a smile. But you must be direct.
Betsy, Greg, and Liz welcome special guests Justin Skeesuck and Patrick Gray, the subjects of a documentary called I’LL PUSH YOU. They tell their story about traveling the Camino de Santiago and talk about the enduring lessons they’ve learned to apply to their lives.
The retired bishop of Indianapolis was elected as Bishop Provisional and is the first woman elected to lead a diocese in Michigan
There are some days that are better than others, like days when you don’t hit every red light when you’re late leaving the house for work, or you ran out of milk after and remit only remembered after you had poured the cereal.