When the church Todd and I served disaffiliated from the United Methodist Church in 2023, we had a Psalm 27 moment.
When I was twenty, I spent a month at the southwest tip of India, part of it in an elephant sanctuary with very little electricity.
Today, the United States marks its 250th birthday, the semiquincentennial of a country whose relationship to its own founding has always been complicated.
For the last eight years or so, our family has taken a short trip down to Galveston right after school lets out.
The summer before I entered seminary, I received a grant from the Fund for Theological Exploration
The Texas landscape in our part of the world is not famous for its beauty.
Our son loves musical theater. He was born for the stage. He loves the atmosphere and the way the theater class accepts differences more readily than almost anywhere else.