Among folks have a certain age in North Texas, saying you were present for the major league debut of David Clyde is akin to what folks say about Woodstock: A lot more people say they were there than who likely…
Read moreAmong folks have a certain age in North Texas, saying you were present for the major league debut of David Clyde is akin to what folks say about Woodstock: A lot more people say they were there than who likely…
Read moreThis will be my first Texas Rangers World Series without my Dad. As I wrote the other day, I got so much of the joy/heartbreak of baseball from my Father. If I am honest, I put my baseball addiction away…
Read moreSixty-two years.
Two Times.
One Game.
One Strike.
Whatever you think of our passion for our Texas Rangers, I have more baseball math for you this morning.
You may still think we (me) are (am) too cocky, brash, and…
Read moreThis morning, at the conclusion of a truly entertaining ALCS between the Texas Rangers and the Houston Astros, I am thinking of the visionary leadership of Tom Vandergriff.
Vandergriff was a visionary not only because of his work to…
Read moreWhen I was a kid, my grandfather Mays gave me his copy of the “Encyclopedia of Baseball.” At the time, it was a one volume set that kept all the records of every team, every player, from the very beginning…
Read moreWith some trepidation, I’ll share a few thoughts on the Jason Aldean song controversy. I’d like to speak to what I’m hearing from all sides of this debate…commenting a bit as both preacher and songwriter. In this critique, I will…
Read moreDear Kessler Park Members and Friends:
What follow is a longish summary of what has just taken place this week as the North Texas Conference met in Plano, Texas. I can’t apologize for the length. Because, honestly, a LOT happened…
Read moreIt’s Cinco de Mayo and so, like every stereotypical White person in America, I am thinking about Tex Mex.
Maybe I’ll go get some at one of my favorite places…
Maybe we’ll head over to “Acapulquena.”
Oh RIGHT…they CLOSED…
Well…
Read moreDear Gov Abbott, I am writing you as a Christian pastor, and calling out your inclusion of the phrase “illegal immigrant” in your tweet regarding the senseless murders of five innocent people in Cleveland, Texas.
I would remind you how…
Read moreI’ve read the “Road to Emmaus” passage from the Gospel of Luke for decades, but I’ve never really unpacked this phrase:
“Jesus himself approached and began traveling with them. But their eyes were prevented from recognizing him.”
LUKE 24: 15-16
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Read moreEveryone needs to hear this leaked video. It reveals several things about America, all at once. It highlights our polarized and racialized politics…
Read moreNEW LEAKED AUDIO: TN House Republicans infighting over #TennesseeThree votes.
CEPICKY: “You gotta do what’s right even…
I’m unlikely to regularly attend “Drag Brunch,” because it’s just not my thing.
But I know this: The Jesus who is my Savior would totally go to a drag show long before he would picket one.
He might not do…
Read moreI’m simultaneously deeply annoyed and deeply saddened by the vast number of Bot-led catfishing proposals I get these days via social media.
It started out as just annoyance. And then, as a way of dealing with that annoyance, I decided…
Read moreIt’s now Monday, and to my amazement, my hastily dashed-off post “Good Friday” —about the original meaning of the crucifixion in Jesus’ time— continues to be shared at a stunning pace.
It’s now approaching 3,000 Facebook shares, and…
“Um…so what’s that interesting necklace you’re wearing?”
I am at the Kerrville Folk Festival, on a sweaty May afternoon. I’m with a group of fellow musicians, and one has again asked me a question I’ve been asked many times before…
Read moreIs it possible to have differing, but equally valid, moral and ethical positions on the film “The Whale?”
I sure hope so. I could be about to test this in what follows.
Whatever your views on the film, on food…
Read moreToday is Texas Independence Day.
As a student at UT Austin, I remember celebrating this day with all the pride I could muster.
Today, years later, I’m thinking about what I didn’t know then, what I do know now, and…
Earlier this week, I shared about Ash Wednesday, a year ago…some time I spent by the Roberts Forest fire pit, praying, crying, playing guitar.
What I didn’t say then was that a song, in honor of my Mom, poured…
Read moreA year ago Ash Wednesday…
It is about this time of night(1) I have not come home from church, but instead I am sitting alone in Roberts Forest at KPUMC. The fire pit is dying down. (This is an actual…
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