In the summer of 2006, Marge and I attended the 217th meeting of the Presbyterian (PCUSA) General Assembly held in Birmingham, Alabama. We’d lived there for four years, hoped to reacquaint ourselves with folks we’d known, and liked going to General Assembly meetings anyway. Most important though, was that the Assembly sponsors face-to-face meetings between […]
Month: April 2020
Post-Easter 2020
Post-Easter (latter April), 2020 By the standards of the day, the followers of Jesus were pretty much nobodies. To be sure, a few of the followers of Jesus were well-placed, but they were the exceptions that proved the rule. In Matthew’s account of the resurrection of Christ Jesus, we see that even he had his […]
Sunday After Easter 2020
Sunday after Easter, 2020 LPC’s dogwood trees come into beautiful bloom in the spring. Legends about the dogwood have sprung up over time: reminders of Christ’s passion. The dogwood blossom is in the shape of a cross. The green center reminds us of the crown of thorns pressed upon the head of Jesus during the […]