I promised myself I would jump out of bed on Sunday, January 1, and jog my way to better health. Sunday came and went. But it was easy to forgive myself for having stayed up late the night before to welcome the New Year. So, I made another promise to myself to be stronger and stick […]
Celebrating Singles in our Churches I remember my former local congregation, although small and made up of mostly elderly white-haired individuals, made yearly effort to praise its mothers on Mother’s Day. On Father’s Day a special meal was prepared in honor of all the dads. But taking a look at another faucet in our churches, […]
You know those ‘immodest’ women church? I was one of them. (insert shame-faced emoticon here.) At 18 years old, I was attending a camp that had a strict dress code. Specifically, no shorts 2 inches above the knee. My shorts were not going to make the cut. And I became bothered that camp organizers were […]
I’ve been realizing how difficult it is for me to genuinely accept the candidates for the next President of the United States. No matter how eloquent his or her public speaking is or how impressed I am by the extravagance of their life’s work success and/or ethics, I haven’t been able to make peace. Maybe […]
With the ever increasing dread we feel whenever we hear divorces spring up out of no where – it’s refreshing to hear some great reasons to get married. Many in our generation today feel the need to wait and wait and WAIT to get married, but maybe it’s time to stop waiting for the […]