by Carol Burns | Oct 24, 2021
Listen By The Rev. J.C. Austin One of the great gifts my father gave me growing up was a thorough education in movies. We watched something of everything, from all-time classic to blockbuster popcorn flicks, from silly comedies to highbrow dramas, from movies...
by Carol Burns | Oct 17, 2021
Listen By The Rev. J.C. Austin Over the past week or so I’ve been listening to the audiobook of the recently-released memoirs of Dave Grohl, the rock musician. Grohl founded the Foo Fighters, one of the biggest rock bands in the world for the last 25 years or...
by Carol Burns | Oct 10, 2021
Listen By The Rev. Lindsey Altvater Clifton It has been a little while since my last pulpit confession, and I’ve been stewing about this one for awhile now because it’s sort of a doozy: I don’t know if I believe in the church. Now, I definitely believe in God...
by Carol Burns | Oct 3, 2021
Listen By The Rev. J.C. Austin One of the most popular genres in movies is the buddy cop film. It’s so popular that there are literally dozens if not hundreds of examples, but there is an astonishing consistency between them. In basically every buddy cop movie,...
by Carol Burns | Sep 26, 2021
Listen By The Rev. J.C. Austin There are certain kinds of buildings that always reflect their original identity and purpose. No matter how long it has been, no matter what’s happening in them now, you can still tell what they were built to be. A Pizza Hut...
by Carol Burns | Sep 19, 2021
Listen By The Rev. J.C. Austin I have wanted my own backyard smoker for a long, long time, and last spring, I decided that I would finally get one. It took me awhile to find the right one, and then setting it up and getting it ready took some more time, and...
