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This morning I got up and pulled on some cover-alls. It took awhile to find them in the closet. Our church was offering free-oil changes and safety inspections to senior citizens and those on limited incomes. Bob, our master mechanic … Continue reading →

Familiarity breeds contempt. Intellectually Christianity is the small town in which I grew up. The first impulse of any teenager raised in a small town is to count the days until he can escape. I was no different. My senior … Continue reading →

When our son’s Doberman, Mira, wants something she is usually good at letting us know. She will moan, yelp and whine, paw the door, or push her head into our lap. She chomps her jaws loudly. This always happens around … Continue reading →

 Mira, our son’s Doberman, likes to share. When Teckla and I get home from work, Mira grabs a bone or a toy and comes happily trotting up to us. We are not sure why: she doesn’t want to fetch the … Continue reading →

I entered college as a religion major, but the major didn’t fit well. I was more interested in street evangelism and Christian coffee houses than how to be the traditional pastor. And in 1972 most training for the ministry was … Continue reading →

A small white and brown dog is running loose over by the church. It often just stands in the middle of the field next to the church or trots around the parking lot. When anyone approaches it or even calls, … Continue reading →

Sometimes the evangelical emphasis on an end-times disaster, combined with the aging membership of many churches, becomes a recipe for doom and gloom. Prophecies of the coming economic collapse and world-wide Islamic jihad are often swirled into a lament about … Continue reading →

Today Teckla and I took Mira, our son’s Doberman, to the beach. For January it was amazingly warm and sunny. Sometimes we have taken a ball for Mira to chase, but today we just let her run. The tide was … Continue reading →