Frankly Speaking

Yuck! Raining again today. So for the afternoon, this big group of extended family I'm with is planning to get out and go shopping. We d...

I'm back in New England for the time being. Woke up to rain, which is precisely what these Connecticut Yankees didn't want. This Ju...

Last month, I picked up a used copy of the 2008 edition of The Best American Essays . Since then I've skipped around in it, reading wha...

According to the Hartford Institute for Religion Research , nearly 60% of all churches in the United States have fewer than 100 in attendanc...

The last post identified some of the pitfalls of small churches. Now I want to consider some of the positives. The following are my own obse...

Then I cried out, "Sovereign Lord, I beg you, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!" (Amos 7:5). The prophet Amos was afra...

Back in March, I was returning home to Amarillo. I'd spent the night before at my folks' house in my old hometown of Altus, Oklahoma...

The article on John Calvin came out in Sunday's paper. Before sending it to the editor, I made a few changes and added the paragraph abo...

On Tuesday of this week, Michele and I and the kids who were here (Aubrey and Ben and Abigail) went out to Splash Amarillo . It’s our little...

Benjamin and Abigail fly in to Oklahoma City tomorrow. I can't wait to pick them up and bring them to Amarillo! - - - - - - The last p...

I'll wind up revising the following article a hundred times between now and this weekend when I finally send it to the paper. I actual...

Over the next few days, I'll have a few things to say about John Calvin. That's because I'm supposed to write something about hi...