Category: Pastors’ Letters

“Narrative psychology” is a fancy term for something that all of us do. We all think about the “story of our lives.” We gather at family reunions and tell stories …

I stumbled onto a book review recently that not only pulled me into the story but hit me with a poignant reminder about how we are all called to see …

Columnist Paul Krugman once quipped that the federal government is basically an insurance company with an army. (That’s because the non-military spending of our Federal budget is dominated by Social …

Just about one year ago we officially launched our ELPC “Building our Future” renovation project. There was a short ceremony after worship, a time of prayer, and a cluster of …

What images come to mind when you see the word “web”? Most commonly we think about spiders weaving their silken threads in plants or under eaves. There is the iconic …

The season of Lent is meant to be a time of preparation as we remember the powerful events around the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Typically, this preparation has …

We have a funny, love-hate relationship with money. When we don’t have it, we wish we did; when we do have it, we worry that someone else will take it …

A new year has begun! I’m always a bit partial to even-numbered years (like 2018). They just feel more symmetrical and balanced than their odd-numbered compatriots. And with the beginning …

Back in the 1930s, the Rev. Thornwell Jacobs (what a great name!) was president of a Presbyterian college in Atlanta called Oglethorpe University. Rev. Jacobs got an idea intended to …

I still subscribe to the newspaper. I like the routine of opening up a morning edition of the paper, of glancing at the headlines, the sports page, and the comics, …