Frankly Speaking

Over the past year or two, I've noticed the publication of several volumes in a new series called the Brazos Theological Commentary on t...

Yesterday was the first day of school at Amarillo College. Needless to say, for the past week or so it's been a little hectic here at th...

בְּרֵאשִׁית בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ What efforts I spent on that task (i.e., learning Hebrew), what difficulties I had...

Anyone who's ever picked up and played a solid-body electric guitar has had the great Les Paul to thank for having done so much to bring...

According to the New Testament, the first, most-basic quality of a church elder is simple: he must be trustworthy. In the words of the text,...

Another photo from last Friday night. Michele and I with the honorees, George and Elaine Caruthers, who were married on August 7, 1959 in Lu...

Michele and I and our six children at Michele's mom and dad's 50th wedding anniversary last Friday evening.

Two weeks from today we start a new school year at Amarillo College. I hope to make these some of my best classes ever. I've been doing ...

I'm thinking about my parents this morning. It's their 54th wedding anniversary. What a record of faithfulness through joy and tears...

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...