Your right to say it

I was sitting next to a gentleman on the plane between Salt Lake City and Denver last week as he rambled on about hedge funds and paperwork to his business partner. I was very road weary (and perhaps a bit hungover) from the evening before. It was a business trip with two other co-workers for [...]

Remembering our saints

The time change could not have come at a better time. That extra hour last night gave flight to a productive Sunday, with a trip to church and tying up loose ends for projects at work. In addition to the minor debt owed to the inventors of Daylight Saving Time (most people today curse them [...]

ECC Bethany Hills Trip 2009

“Did you see the size of that fish?” If you hear this question during a weekend outing, it is in my humble opinion that you must have done something right in planning it. For us, it was heading out to a church retreat at Bethany Hills Camp in Kingston Springs, Tenn. Seventy or so members [...]

Halfway there

I listened in the game tonight as the Nashville Predators closed out their home schedule against the Chicago Blackhawks. It was a game with a lot on the line for the Predators as they try to keep pace with St. Louis and stay ahead of Minnesota and Edmonton in the standings. Through the first period, [...]

Faith full circle

Sunday morning my wife and I will be joining a Disciples of Christ congregation in Nashville. It marks the end of a two and a half year search for a spiritual home since first contemplating the move back to middle Tennessee, and a wonderful beginning. We sat down with the senior pastor after services last [...]

The Maker

Samantha and I went to a church group meeting tonight at a co-worker’s home. While we do not go to the same church as the others in attendance, it is clear to see that communities of faith can share the same core message regardless of denominational lines. The evening’s reading was from the book of [...]

Altar call

Prior to a recent decision by the Southern Baptist Convention to purge member rolls after a period of inactivity, I was (presumably) counted among the members of a small missionary Baptist church in rural west Tennessee. I joined the church by baptism in 1997 and have never had the kind of conflict of faith that [...]