Stark Thoughts on Vaccines and Treatments
The headline last week would have been hopeful news indeed, if we hadn’t been here so many times before. “Cancer and heart disease vaccines ‘ready by end of the decade’” was the story in The Guardian.
Has "Big Worship" Ruined Church Music?
Ah, the week after Easter, that season when we critique the music we’ve just been singing. My attention was caught when the New York Times religion reporter tweeted out a link to Bob Smietana’s piece published this week bemoaning the homogenous nature of the present worship experience and how many churches did the same music over Easter weekend (and, by extension, every weekend).
Up the Amazon Without a Paddle
Photography was nothing new to me. I took my first published news picture when I was in third grade, and was getting regularly published by the time I turned 13, the year I started winning photography awards. This isn’t to brag — most people were shooting their Instamatics, while I had been given a Yashica A twin-lens camera for Christmas when I was eight years old. So I had some experience.
The Middle of the Week
Is it just me? It feels like 2023 has been a slog so far. I’m pretty certain it isn’t just me, because as I look around, everyone looks like they are struggling. Life is full of struggles, but I don’t remember them being so palpable around most people most of the time like now. We strive and yearn and wait. Like Holy Week.
Neighbors
This is written as, on the other side of the wall, the generator is roaring away. Fortunately the wall is thick enough and well enough insulated that the sound is not as irritating as you’d expect.
Current Weather
FaithTree Videos
This Week's Devotional: Love (April 13, 2023)
Jim starts us on an exploration of the Fruit of the Spirit by considering “love” in this week’s devotional.
Sermons and Devotionals
| I Need Rescue (April 10, 2023) |
| Good Friday: God Turns Tragedy into Good (April 7, 2023) |
| You Counterfeited My Cheese! (April 3, 2023) |