by The Rev. J.C. Austin | Jun 19, 2022
Coming Soon By The Rev. J.C. Austin The old man walks into the empty room slowly. He is dressed in the simple dark peasant uniform of Maoist China during the Cultural Revolution. Looking at his face, the years have clearly weighed on him; he has known his...
by The Rev. J.C. Austin | Jun 12, 2022
Audio coming! By The Rev. J.C. Austin It’s important to recognize just how improbable, even unimaginable, this story is. This is Elijah we’re talking about: one of God’s all-stars, perhaps the greatest of the Hebrew prophets. This is the one thought by...
by The Rev. J.C. Austin | Jun 5, 2022
Audio coming! By The Rev. J.C. Austin “Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink.” It’s one of those lines that is so famous that people reference it without any real awareness of where it comes from. Is it from Shakespeare? Robert Frost? Kevin Costner’s...
by The Rev. J.C. Austin | May 29, 2022
Audio coming! By The Rev. J.C. Austin A few weeks ago, the ace starting pitcher of the Baltimore Orioles, John Means, exited suddenly in the middle of the game with elbow problems. After a series of tests, it was determined that he required what is known in...
by The Rev. Lindsey Altvater Clifton | May 22, 2022
Audio coming! By The Rev. Lindsey Altvater Clifton Birches, by Robert Frost: When I see birches bend to left and rightAcross the lines of straighter darker trees,I like to think some boy’s been swinging them.But swinging doesn’t bend them down to...
by The Rev. J.C. Austin | May 15, 2022
Audio coming! By The Rev. J.C. Austin “If you knew you were going to die, what would you do so people would remember you?” That’s essentially the question that record producer Sam Phillips asks the singer Johnny Cash in Walk the Line, the film about Cash’s...
