Pastor's Pen

When my father, mother, and I lived in the remote village of Akiak, Alaska in the late 1970’s, we had two ways to...

Long ago, on a cool morning at camp, I sat on the boat dock and prayed, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me, a...

Excerpt from Lectio 365 Today is Wednesday the 22nd of February, also known as Ash Wednesday. Many Christians...

Just a few weeks ago, the Jr High group led the children’s story. They shared a skit that they wrote, taken from...

Our home in Ohio had a big bay window in the front room. Finding curtains for that thing was a challenge because it...

Those crazy Facebook quizzes annoy me (and there are warnings about not taking them because of the threat of...

A few years ago, I attended a leader’s retreat at Williamsburg Christian Retreat Center near Toano, VA. One...

Over the last couple months, I have been compiling the many writings of both of my parents. My mother was the...

One cold, snowy day in Northern Ohio at the camp where I worked, I shoveled the sidewalks. There are a lot of...

I’ve never been a celebrator of New Year’s Eve; I like going to bed before 11pm. When our kids were at home we...