I learned a new word today – prettify. “Prettify,” according to an on-line dictionary, means, “To make pretty or prettier, especially in a superficial or insubstantial way.” I came across the word in a reflection I was reading as part of my daily devotion. It was used in reference to the manger scenes that becomeContinueContinue reading “The Prettified Manger”
Category Archives: Faith
The Prophetic Significance of Occupy Wall Street
I can’t help but think during this Advent Season of the voices of the biblical prophets and what influence, if any, they exert in the protests of the Occupy Wall Street Movement. From all I gather, this has been pretty much a secular movement, yet firmly rooted in the moral, ethical and spiritual principles ofContinueContinue reading “The Prophetic Significance of Occupy Wall Street”
Where were you?
World Trade Center – May 1981 I took this photo of the twin towers of the World Trade Center in May of 1981 while vacationing in New York. A few months after they were destroyed I made a copy of the photo and pinned it on the bulletin board in my office in the church I servedContinueContinue reading “Where were you?”
Walking Together in Faith 