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Remembering a Friend
A friend died a couple days ago. He was an alumni of the same Bible college I attended. I’ll call him Charles. There is a part of me that feels like I should let this sit before I start writing about...
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Dear Ozark Christian College,
I am writing to inform you about the passing of one of the young men who attended your institute of learning a few years back. I sent a note to whoever runs your Facebook page, asking them to share...
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God’s Pen
Funny story. Several years ago, back in Bible college, my friend, who for the purposes of this story, I will call Dwight, was in the school’s library doing homework. He needed to use a highlighter...
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Willie’s Redneck Rodeo
It was one of those jaw dropping, did I really just see that moments. I was on Facebook, per usual, scrolling through posts and I stumbled upon a picture of someone’s kids in long grey beards and...
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Book of John
There is a group that I belong to on Facebook whose aim is to bridge the gap between the glbt and conservative Christian communities. There is a fellow in the group who repeatedly posts things from his...
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The Pink Tea Cup
When I lived in New York, on my days off from work, I would sometimes go to the Jefferson Market Library in Greenwich Village, check out a few books, then wander somewhere around there for lunch. One...
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Lunch With an Old Friend
Yesterday, I had lunch with a friend from Bible college that I had not seen for over 20 years. I met him and his oldest son Luke at the California Pizza Kitchen in Arcadia. We caught up on our lives,...
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Letters, I Do Get Letters.
Well, I suppose by letters, I mostly mean emails or Facebook messages, but from time to time, I do receive privates correspondence from people, usually from people I know, about something I’ve written...
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The Differences
A couple of days ago, I spent the afternoon with two friends from Bible college, Heidi and Greg, who were visiting Los Angeles with their teenage children. We walked around Hollywood Boulevard and...
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Secrets of the Closet
The author, age 23. The gay press has been floating around a story about a pastor in Michigan, Matthew Makela, who recently resigned from his position at St. John’s Lutheran Church because it was...
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Us Vs. Them
If you’ve met my Mom, you no doubt love her. She is a sweet little lady with a big heart. She is also a Christian and, like most Christians, she makes her decisions by asking herself, “What would Jesus...
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Look Up
For the second time in two weeks, I have found myself in a church service on a Sunday morning. It’s hard to say how this all came about and certainly, I don’t have any idea where this new journey of...
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The Great Communicator
It’s been awhile since I’ve done a storytelling show, awhile since I’ve blogged. My second to last storytelling was a real bust. I was a little drunk, always a crap shoot. I didn’t know exactly what...
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Oh The Love of God
It’s one of my favorite memories and surely, it’s one of the simplest. 1989, sitting in a field on a college campus in Central Pennsylvania. It was a church camp, I was there with the youth group...
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Always
As I drove Highway 128 from Mendocino to Santa Rosa, towering redwoods flanked me for most of the journey. These old, gorgeous, distinguished trees were like nothing I had ever witnessed growing up...
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Not Only Does Jesus Love You
My friend and co-worker Judy has never really gotten over me writing a blog about another co-worker. I know this because about once every five days, she brings up that blog and asks, “why don’t you...
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For You Are With Me
According to family legend, in the weeks before my father’s mother died, she had a conversation with my mother that changed the course of our lives. At that time, my parents did not attend church. I...
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Guest Blogger, Ab Kastl: Mind the Queue
Several days ago, I asked a few friends to write guest blogs about this divisive, explosive election. One of the people I asked was my good friend Ab Kastl, who, like me, grew up in the same part of...
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Todd Stevens
This weekend, I went to visit my parents in Kansas. I had not been to my childhood home since 2014. I spent some time poring over old cards and letters, old pictures too. I was awash, still am,...
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The Forty-Niner
On Sunday, Eric and I took a day trip to Santa Barbara. We visited the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and, while it is partially closed, we thoroughly enjoyed the pieces that are currently being...
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