Last Spring I read an article about a local author living in Fairhope across the bay from Mobile. Karen Spears Zacharias is from all over the place, but last I heard she lived across the Mobile Bay in one of the loveliest little towns Alabama has ever produced. She’s written several books, but the one...
If there is one essential to Christianity, it is that at its core we have the Gospel- literally, the Good News. The Gospel we preach produces the churches we get. Over the last ten years I’ve spent a lot of time on determining what the Gospel is. What comprises the Gospel? What makes it good...
At 5:10 AM on August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina made its second landfall on American soil near Buras, Louisiana, obliterating almost everything in its wake, from New Orleans to Mobile, Alabama. Five years later we’re still recovering. You’ve probably been inundated with Katrina memorials, specials, and documentaries this past week. The media (and many regular...
I wrote the following very early in the nighttime morning of Saturday, August 27, 2005. It went live at 4:14 AM, about the time this post should go live, five years later. It was a lesson I needed to learn, a life-altering moment. Looking back on the events nobody saw coming, I see much of...
Every day we wake up and are immediately thrust into the world as agents of change. Everything we do impacts someone or something. The vast majority of us wake up and, whether we realize it or not, through our bitterness, jealousy, rage, and cruelty find ever-creative ways to transform the world for the worse. We...
