“Well I feel foolish. I was interested in a Bible Study group when I opened your creative writing page. Unfortunately I have no creative writing skills at all!” …Excerpt from the email of a member of my new Creative Writing through Bible Study group on Facebook. The group member then asked if her daughter who [...]
A Facebook group titled “The Levites” asked the question… How do we stop the pimping of the church? With each new conference comes a new gimmick, DVD, etc. Each new worship experience comes with a new fund-raising effort and sales pushes! How do we stop the prostitution of gifts in the church? Let’s talk about [...]
“And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod. So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet. And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, [...]
Recently I attended an event with a group of Christian women who prayerfully watched the documentary film Soulmate… Everywoman’s Journey to Finding True Love. The film’s description as listed on Amazon.com is “For those still waiting to exhale, Soulmate is a gripping cinematic journey into the realities facing today’s successful, saved and single African American [...]
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” (Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) It doesn’t matter how positive we are in our faith walk or how careful we are in seeking truth, we will experience grief, suffering, pain, fear, and anxiety, for they are part of life. Disappointment is the price we [...]
What I have come to realize after being divorced for many years, is my ex-husband and I did not share the same core values. For him, the ideal marriage was keeping a wife “barefoot and pregnant;” to use an old phrase. During our relationship before we were married this deeply embedded ideal, passed down from [...]
