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This was written soon after arriving in The Gambia and starting my website there. It is still as I wrote it then with the exception that I went through and changed the present tense to past tense and the section now titled “From Here to There” was then titled “From There to Here.” This testimony …
The Gambia, West Africa represents some of the biggest miracles of my life and in some ways it was the happiest three years of my life up until that time. (Costa Rica is now the happiest!) It is also one of the most story-filled times of my life, represented by the Bantaba I am sitting …
I do not like to offend my many friends who still work for Southern Baptists and/or the now more general “Evangelicals,” but because Evangelicals have chosen to be overtly political in what I consider very “unChristian” ways, as possibly the main force now behind the current “right-wing,” the tea-party, white supremacists, Donald Trump, and the …
SUMMARY: Denominational Work for the Southern Baptist Convention UNDER CONSTRUCTION – I’m just listing the three agencies I served through for now, but will come back and tell more about them and what I did in each position. My biography books give a pretty good overview of work at these agencies and with less detail …
Change blows across my life’s beach, In hopes that it will my mind teach. Shadowed as a lacy palm-like dream, In my eyes, wildlife and nature gleam. Pure life soars o’er a high canopy, Toucans, Parrots, Macaws will be. On colorful wings of living abroad, In tropical places where I’ll be awed. As many birds …
The Beatitudes & Me The first devotional I ever gave was in my high school Sunday school department at Calvary Baptist Church in Tulsa and I used the Beatitudes. As a shy, insecure teenage boy, these words in Matthew 5: 3-12 were powerful and comforting. As I remember, I just read them and made like …
In Costa Rica Each church has a story and an impact on my life. I hope to tell each story here eventually. The header photo above is Vacation Bible School Immanuel Baptist Church, El Dorado, AR 1953. I’m near top center, head of table holding Bible, age 12 soon to be 13. My simple start …
Following Jesus – The Will Campbell Way (My June 15, 2013 blog post on His Spirit Blog) A Middle Tennessee minister/philosopher/activist, Will Campbell, cut to the chase when it came to following Jesus and would be as good a role model for me as anyone in contemporary times. He died June 3. In today’s Tennessean our …
In 2013 I joined a writer’s guild called “Word and Image Guild” for the Hermitage community that met at McKendree Retirement Village where I was living at the time (for 2 years). Most were older people like me and many were working on their memoirs and thus many of our writing assignments were to write …
Religious art may need an explanation for both those who know me well and for those who do not. Though I worked my entire adult life for Southern Baptists (evangelicals), I became quite disappointed with the denomination in general and the later larger concept of Evangelical Christians as I year by year watched a very …