Doing More for the Other Person
Kay, Lillian and I made our way home to Florida following my discharge from the Navy in the summer of 1976. Kay was offered a [...]
In Need of Christ’s Presence
When I accepted the call to serve the Presbyterian Church on Edisto Island I did so the summer before my final year in seminary under [...]
Staying Spiritually Fit
There were two activities I especially enjoyed about the Spring during my high school years, one was playing baseball (my favorite sport) and the other [...]
To Touch the Hearts of All
Over the last few days, my thoughts have turned to the island of Iona (off the western coast of Scotland) the Abbey and the Iona [...]
With God’s People
One of the things I have always admired about the work of Jesus is that the needs of people always took precedence over rules of religion, [...]
Names Remembered
This has been an unusual, strange and sad day. I received word a while ago that the Rev. Dr. Barry Van Deventer, former Executive Presbyter [...]
Does the Church Have Answers?
One of my required readings in seminary by way of Systematic Theology was a book titled, "On Being A Christian" by Hans Kung, a Swiss [...]
Jesus and Ping Pong
Kay and I worked with a group of about sixty youth in the summer of 1972. Some of the young people could be described as [...]
Knocked Down and Picked Up, Reassured and Comforted
Kay and I grew up in Inverness, Florida, a close-knit community in central Florida about an hour south of "the Swamp" in Gainesville. According to the [...]
Being Transformed and Renewed
In the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew, Perry Hall (a former member now living in Charleston, SC) and I made the long drive down I-95 to [...]
