I have several significant milestones coming up in the next few months. The first comes this week. November 28, 2004 was my first day at my first pastorate. I count it as the anniversary of my beginning full-time ministry. It also happened to be the first Sunday of Advent, so the beginning of that seasonContinue reading “Not Yet”
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Wineskins and Panic
No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old cloak, for the patch pulls away from the cloak, and a worse tear is made. Neither is new wine put into old wineskins; otherwise, the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins are destroyed; but new wine is put into fresh wineskins,Continue reading “Wineskins and Panic”
Johnnie Walker Spirituality
As I made my way through every Oscar nominee for Best Picture the past couple of months, the movie American Fiction stood out as one of my favorites. It stars the incomparable Jeffrey Wright as a struggling author who becomes so frustrated with what kind of Black art sells that he fires off a satiricalContinue reading “Johnnie Walker Spirituality”
