“Hey, can I sit down here for a few moments?”

Now I am a seminary president and, oddly enough, I also need to get ready for a new school year . . . How?

Recently we lost a longtime friend and supporter of the seminary, former chair of the board of trustees, Dr. Bill Wood. In addition, our faculty member Dr. Gwenfair Adams just lost her mother. These deaths both occurred in the past week. So my thoughts have turned to reflect upon sobering transitions and the place of death in our lives.

History is very important. One of the ways Christian history is important is that the more we read the more we discover the core, foundation, and lifeblood of the Christian life.

History is very important. One of the ways Christian history is important is that the more we read the more we discover the core, foundation, and lifeblood of the Christian life.

Sometimes when you read a passage of Scripture it brings you back. It leads you back to important moments, events, or relationships.

Silent. Yet, I noticed the sun was starting to come up, so I must have missed my alarm. My phone was dead. No light. No numbers…nothing…

There is no question but that many of us feel that the current political climate, the divisions across societal and cultural lines within our country…

In all humility, we need to listen, learn, and revise our understandings of how God’s Spirit operates and the way His great work lifts up Jesus in each ethne.

Last Sunday, as I came forward to receive the Eucharist, I found myself overwhelmed by sin: the sins of the world, the violence, divisions among Christians and of course my own sin.