Caldwell, our “Summer of Questions” is coming to an end. You’ve been fantastic companions all along the way. You have responded to these blogs with questions of your own. You have read these ramblings of mine with grace and with openness of mind and heart. (If you want to go back and reread earlier blogs, …
Caldwell, this is Pride Week in Charlotte. The Pride Festival will take place on Saturday and Sunday, August 20th and 21st uptown. We still need volunteers to sit in our Pride booth and greet people who want information about Caldwell. If you are interested in helping at Caldwell’s booth, please use this link to sign up: https://bit.ly/3OKAf45. …
Did you know that those words come to us from the Bible, from 1 Timothy, chapter 4, verse 12? Paul wrote two letters to Timothy, a younger man who was a leader in the early church. Timothy was a follower of Christ who had deep wisdom and strength, courage and insight beyond his years, and …
“Do not let anyone look down on you because you are young…” Read More »
Caldwell, this has been a tough year. A tiring year. A demanding year. Actually, the past 2+ years have been tough and tiring and demanding. Who am I kidding? All of human history has been tough, tiring, and demanding. What are you going to do about that, Caldwell?What are we going to do about that?What …
And I am, Caldwell. I dream about travel to new places, to cities and museums all over the world.I dream about eating street food on busy streets in cities I’ve never explored. I dream about long contemplative walks on shaded greenways.I dream about times of silence and solitude in old churches and monasteries, in lush …
“Sometimes it’s the people no one imagines anything of, who do the things no one can imagine.” (From The Imitation Game) When I hear the story of “the Good Samaritan” in Luke 10:25-37, it reminds me of this quote. In Luke 10, verse 30, the story begins this way – “A man traveling from Jerusalem …
what if God is real?what if God created all that is? what if God created humanity in order to be in relationship with us?what if God really did walk with those first two humans in that first garden? what if God came to earth through the womb of an unwed teenage girl and was born …
Oh Caldwell, there are so many of both, aren’t there? Joys and concerns. As for joys these days – we rejoice with two sets of Caldwell parents, Kate & Meredith and Devin & Jenni, over the births of new babies into their families. We rejoice with students and teachers and administrators that school is out …
Hello, my friends. Gail here. I greet you from the mountain enclave of Montreat, North Carolina, where I have spent the past twelve days. The first days were days of preparation and meetings and sound checks and practices for conference events before welcoming the youth last Sunday evening. The first group of youth was here …
Caldwell, in many ways, the world feels like even more of a hot mess than usual these days. Covid numbers are rising again. Hope is on the decline again. Gun violence is rampant. Common decency is rare. Our politics divide us. Diagnoses are dreadful. Despair lurks at every turn. More and more people are in …
