Recently I had the experience of getting an insurance company to make an exception. The story is long, boring and all-too-familiar. You’ve likely lived it. The medication or procedure is not covered. The doctor is out of network. Too bad, so sad, think of the care you...
While solving big problems with big ideas is needed and important, it is also true that most positive changes will come in very small ways one life at a time, one little plot of land at a time, one person willing to do the right thing against all odds and with little...
Join First Presbyterian Church and the greater Greensboro Faith community in the 17th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Virtual Interfaith Worship Service, this Monday, January 17 at noon. The theme is Shifting Priorities to Create the Beloved Community. Below are...
Eat together. Pray together. Celebrate together. This is the motto of the place where I had the privilege to live the past 3 years in seminary. A place of folks of all different abilities, doing life together. We were seminary students and friends living with...
Grant, being a fan of all things over-the-top-Christmas, has a large collection of Christmas-themed ties, both secular and sacred. One of his favorites looks understated, what with its diagonal red and green stripes and block letters that repeat the phrases: “Merry...
The turning of the calendar is a somewhat random marking of time, but it is, nonetheless, an occasion to reflect backwards and be intentional about moving forward. I don’t really make New Year’s resolutions, but I do like to pause and think about what I want to take...
Matt Logan, Director of Discipleship & Young Adult Ministry, penned this offering for the close of the year. WE DID WHAT WE SAID WE WOULDN’T: STANZAS FOR THE TIRED THIS HOLIDAY SEASON You did what you said you wouldn’t And I did it too. Of course...
In the Gospel of John, Jesus says to the disciples, “And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you forever … the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and remind you of all that I...
I am really enjoying my unexpected extra 4 months to serve as one of your pastors. I deeply appreciate all your best wishes and inquiries into what my life will be like after I leave at the end of February. If you look up the word “retire” in a dictionary,...
As we enter the week leading up to Christmas, it might be busy around your house. We have to-do lists and the days seem to be flying. Amidst the busyness, however, you might also be caught up in the cyclical pattern of the year — time collapsing, taken back to...
