God is With Us
Posted March 26, 2020. This post is by Mac Brown, my close friend for more than thirty years: Rev. Chris Denny’s sermon title on Sunday March 22 was God Is With Us. He challenged us to think about when we last had “seen” God. I may not have “seen” God but I felt his presence on the preceding…
Horseshoes and Social Distancing
Posted March 26, 2020 There’s a joking bargain that farriers often offer to novice horse owners: They’ll shoe all four feet starting at one penny for the first nail and simply doubling the cost for the next nail at 2 cents, the next at four cents, and so on. Total the fee for each nail and that’s…
Lemon Meringue Pie and Toilet Paper
Posted March 20, 2020 When I was quite young, about first-grade age, I remember our family having dessert every evening after supper. It seemed one night we would have lemon meringue pie–my very favorite–next chocolate, then my father’s favorite, apple pie, and so on. And, Jello, we had it with supper as part of a…
Astonishing “Arrowheads”*
Posted March 1, 2020 Thinking about Culture Change: Frontiersman Daniel Boone once lived in the Yadkin River Valley of North Carolina not far from my boyhood home, and I began reading Boone biographies in middle school. At the time, I was also finding Native American “arrowheads” and “spearheads.” And, I imagined them having been left…