About a month ago a dog showed up at our farm in Patrick County, Va. She stayed under a tractor left out in a pasture. We started feeding her and eventually she moved her home to a hay shed. She never growls and always wags her tail, but she is very afraid. Skittish...
I have been thinking about minimal standards recently. For example Monday night in our Session meeting on Zoom we were reminded that an active member of the Presbyterian Church is anyone who has given some financial gift of any amount and attended worship at least...
Most of us have experienced special moments when the beauty of the natural world overwhelms us. We sense and feel not just beauty but the sacred. The Celtic tradition suggests there are thin places on the earth where the presence of God radiates brightly. Places where...
Even though this has been and will continue to be a very unusual summer, the warm weather may still bring to us some unexpected rest and reflection. Summer is a good time to remember or discover some sacred, timeless truths about life. Here are three I commend to you....
Today we join with people of faith and hope all over the world to raise our voices in outrage and sadness over the killing of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor. But what is so tragic and deeply troubling is the long litany of many many others who came...
Many of you know that Kate and I are taking care of a family farm in Patrick County, Va., on the NC border and close to Mt. Airy. It is where Kate’s mother Helen grew up. It is over 400 acres of cow pastures, hay fields, forests, springs, streams, and cropland....
