“A tree is identified by its fruit. Figs are never gathered from thorn bushes, and grapes are not picked from bramble bushes. A good person […]

Growing up in the Black sect of the Pentecostal Holiness Churches in southern Virginia and northern North Carolina, I can remember the efforts to cross […]

Most of the time, I follow the lectionary as the scriptural inspiration for my Sunday morning sermons. Well, this week I’ve decided to only partially […]

So far 2015 has been a very hot summer, with seemingly no relief in sight from this heat wave. I was in South Georgia last […]