I love the community I live in: raised my family here, pastored a church here for 24 years, continue to live here even with a 41 mile commute one way to Pasadena Monday-Thursday. This is a town I love, where I continue to volunteer my time–at church, as a police chaplain, working with faith communities [...]
I am going to begin a couple of posts on life and ministry in the suburbs. Suburban America is a wonderful and dangerous place. This space characterized by safety, homogeneity, and affluence shapes attitudes. These suburban attitudes, that usually remain unexamined and unchallenged, can warp the way we view the world and act in the [...]
Happy Fourth of July! No matter what your politics. Whether today you are happy or annoyed by what is going on in our country. We who are citizens of the United States have a lot to be proud of. On July 4, 1776, a group of very courageous people, with the threat of execution for [...]