Nov 1, 2018
FIVE BOYS … When I was age nine our family moved 600 miles to a “borough” outside of Philadelphia. We lived there less than three years, but my experiences there forever shaped me. In my new school class were two Jewish boys appropriately named David and...
Oct 2, 2018
This past Sunday I was at Springfield Maplewood Church. I cannot describe how happy I am to see and feel what is happening there. During lunch Pastor Vickie Case told me a story about when she first counseled at one of our district’s children’s camps 20-plus years...
Sep 11, 2018
Beware If Your “Religion” Makes You Mean / Sept. 11, 2018 … Seventeen years ago 3,000 Americans lost their lives in attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and in a plane that crashed in Pennsylvania. Our nation grieved in shock. Ever since we have...
Aug 7, 2018
Dear friend, On a cold January 2017 evening I came into the district parsonage and went straight to the already-burning fireplace. (It’s gas … I don’t want you thinking Mona is chopping wood and building fires for “her man” to come home to.) Mona called from the...
Jul 1, 2018
Somehow over the years I have been “the flower person” at our house. That is, every spring I make my trip(s) to the local garden shops to pick out this year’s annuals and then plant them. Other types of flowers have come along, too. Somewhere along the way I got into...
May 19, 2018
In the 1800s, after the crops were in the ground and with both a desire for spiritual nurture and social interaction, our pioneering forefathers began to come together during summer weeks. I am told these earliest “encampments” were first in Kentucky and spread from...
