Tonight was our annual Youth Night at Camp Meeting. All week during Camp Meeting services, the older folks come and listen to their preachers. None of the teens would be caught dead at those services. But one night each year during Camp Meeting, our department calls in a cool speaker for the youth and brings [...]

The year of 2010 has been a year of change for me and one of the more pleasant changes has been the Wednesday book discussion that I’ve been co-facilitating with my sweet Okie-Laskan pastor-blogger-musician friend, Jason Stasyszen. In February, we started with Mad Church Disease by Anne Jackson and in May, we moved on to [...]

This post is part of our regularly scheduled blog carnival at Bridget Chumbley’s place. For more great posts on LAUGHTER, go visit her site. When I first heard that today’s blog carnival was on the topic of Laughter, I almost skipped out. You guys have read my blog. I’m pretty serious when I write. And [...]

I would like to preface this by saying that this is a true story.  I’ve told this story before and usually, people don’t believe me.  But really y’all, it’s true… I have another horrible little confession to make. I used to smoke. C’mon y’all.  Cut me a little slack.  I grew up in NC– a [...]

As a preacher’s kid and as a person who works for a denomination, a lot of people would probably assume that I’d be all about finding, joining, and attending a local church body. People who know me a little better know that I’ve been hurt, time and time again, by churches and church people in [...]

O LORD, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD. You [...]

The day I got back from Africa, I promised that I’d tell you certain stories and you know what? I left you hanging on a couple of them. Let me fix that today. I was given a ring while I was in Sudan. And let me apologize now that I don’t have a picture of [...]