Since mid-March, I’ve had a number of people come to me with the lament that they find it difficult to be happy in the midst of the world’s goings-on. They share with me sadness at being physically distant from friends and...
Para leer esta carta en español - haga click aquí. Dear Parish Family and Friends, With great joy, we returned to in-person worship last Sunday, June 21. At the same time, we began live streaming our worship services, and the...
As a kid, I loved dinosaurs. To this day, the rhinoceros is my favorite animal at the zoo, because he looks to me like a Triceratops. Every week in grade school, I would insist my mother take me to the Greene County Library to check out...
In April, just a few weeks into our COVID-19 new reality, world-recognized author, filmmaker and fellow Houstonian Lois Stark wrote an essay entitled, “Breakdown or Breakthrough: Changing the COVID Crisis to Opportunity.” It is a...
For the past twelve weeks, I’ve come to you each Tuesday with a message of hope related to the coronavirus. Today, for the first time since mid-March, I find myself compelled to speak to something entirely...