Fifty-four years ago today, four black girls were killed when Ku Klux Klansmen bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Say their names with me: Addie Mae… read more

Jesus was born in captivity. How odd that must sound. At the mention of Jesus’ birth many of us think of mangers and shepherds and angels and the little town of Bethlehem… read more

According to common belief, the Protestant Reformation began five hundred years ago when, on October 31, 1517, Martin Luther nailed a list of ninety-five theses to the cathedral… read more

The hate speech, the protests, and the political outcry of this week are like nothing I’ve ever seen in my lifetime. My friends in their seventies have told me that these… read more

The Wesleys formed the Holy Club at Oxford as a protest against spiritual mediocrity. The protest did not contest doctrines or theology of the Anglican Church. Rather, it was… read more

The first book I fell in love with was Gone with the Wind. As a young reader, it was my first “adult” book, an epic tome, and being prone to the dramatic, I was swept… read more