Fruitful Detours
I was looking at some YouTube videos about tomatoes, because I wanted some tips before I planted some. While I was browsing I came across a guy who talked about putting chopped-up bananas in the soil under his tomato plants. He thought they provided great nutritional benefits. That got me going on bananas. (Didn’t you […]
My niece was graduating from college a little while ago, and my wife and I were driving down to Indianapolis from Chicago. Somewhere near Lebanon, Indiana, Lisa said, “Isn’t this where your parents rolled their car?” It sure was. Years ago, my mom somehow drove off the road and their car flipped over. I said, […]
For those of you who don’t really care about the “inside baseball” of the United Methodist Church (UMC), you can stop reading now. For the rest of you, Wow! What an amazing couple of weeks. The General Conference of the UMC just finished up, and there have been some giant leaps and jumps toward openness […]
Spring has finally arrived in Chicago. I was outside today without a jacket, and it was beautiful. The birds were singing and the breeze was gentle. We all recognize that Spring feels like a time of new life, of rebirth, of starting over. It is no accident that the early church scheduled Easter to coincide […]