Well, the news is out. The controversial Tood Bentley who spearheaded the "Lakeland Revival" last summer has divorced his first wife, Shonnah, and married "the other woman," Jessa. Wife number one is overweight, suffers after-effects from bouts of cancer, and is the mother of Bentley's three childre...

I finally got around to watching 10 Things I Hate About You the other night. The movie apparently came out when I was a junior in high school – prime target audience age for that teen cult classic. But despite being repeatedly being told over the years that I channel the female protagonist – I h...

The weather forecast called for steady rain across the upper Midwest. Dee Anna was driving home late Sunday evening, and she had turned on the radio partly to keep herself company and partly to avoid thinking. Static crackled as lightening forked across the sky. Dee Anna snapped off the radio. Tee s...

Oh, hey! I have a blog! I, erm, forgot. Well, I didn’t forget that I HAD a blog. But that, it needed to be, you know, updated. And I hadn’t done that. I’m kind of very much spacey these days. Like walk out of the house with only one shoe and no pants kinda spacey. I have lots of figuratively h...

Yes indeed, it feels very strange, these last few days with my congregation of ten years. It would feel sad, but much less strange if I knew what, if anything, is coming next for me. In the entry is a display that includes a carving of Jesus' head with a crown of thorns, dry palm branches, huge nail...

I like bullet points. They make my lack of attention span look like staccato brilliance. Yes, I’m some kinda Drill Sergeant Executive Hemmingway Person, not a human-hummingbird-hamster-hybrid. Of course. :D • The solution to that ugly purple toe nail that has been bothering you for weeks and def...

“I remember you. But you’ve changed. You used to be so angry,� said the long-since lost childhood acquaintance. A thousand slow afternoons ago, we had shared a shady-lane grammar school, peanut butter and jelly crackers, sticker books and squeaky-voiced conversations. But even if we hadn’t, ...

Dee Anna’s watch beeped insistently. Fumbling under the pillow, she slowly realized it was still on her wrist. Without checking the time, she turned off the alarm. Dimly realizing she was a little chilly she pulled up the blanket. A front must have moved through after she fell asleep. Where was Ch...

As I've posted, I have resigned the pastorate of Jubilee, and my last Sunday there will be March 8th. That is not much time. As I have gone through February, I am acutely aware that I am doing things for the last time. The last pot luck. The last business meeting. The last board meeting with the dea...

The sound of crickets filled the room. The night was warm and a humid haze hung in the air. Wasn’t it supposed to be cool in the north? Dee Anna tossed restlessly, turning her back to the window. The relentless glare of an orange-tinted streetlight cast shadows on the wall. They were so vivid Dee ...