Text: Genesis 1:1-3 The year was 1925. The place was Dayton, Tennessee. The occasion was the trial of a biology teacher, John Scopes. The...

Text: Ezekiel 37:1-14 My grandfather attended the Newport News Apprentice School soon after the First World War. He then went to work for...

Texts: Jeremiah 31:15; Matthew 19:14 Novelist Flannery O’Connor once wrote, “If you believe in the divinity of Christ, you have to...

Text: Acts 9:36-42 A Christmas tradition in the Charles household is watching a version of or reading Dickins’, A Christmas Carol. The...

Text: Genesis 2:8-9, 15-17; Mark 15:21-24; Revelation 22:1-4 For all those mothers, grandmothers, aunts, special women who have shaped...

Text: John 21:15-19 I grew up in a time when Presbyterians did not know what to do with Maundy Thursday or Good Friday. It was as if the...

Text: John 20:19-31 Sometimes Easter comes late and that has nothing to do with the calendar. As John tells it, Easter comes late for...

Text: Luke 24:1-12 Dear Joe, I am reading this letter to your family and friends gathered at Cove Presbyterian Church on the day of your...

Luke 23:32-43 Among the four Gospel writers, Luke tells the most compelling story of the views expressed by three men nailed to Roman...

First Reflection: Live and Move and . . . Bach was not much older than a boy when he wrote the funeral music we will soon hear. We do not...