by Guy Sayles | Oct 31, 2017 |
This morning, I had the opportunity to preach a “Reformation Day” sermon in Mars Hill University’s Chapel. People who know something about my preaching will recognize that I’ve used, yet again, a Raymond Carver poem, the description of an...
by Guy Sayles | Oct 22, 2017 |
This morning, I had the joy of sharing in worship with, and preaching for, the good folks of All Souls Episcopal Cathedral. I’m grateful to Dean Todd Donatelli for the invitation. To the words from Matthew, I add the gospel according to Aretha...
by Guy Sayles | Oct 15, 2017 |
These days, finding silence is both difficult and necessary. It’s hard enough to find external silence. Even in the early morning hours, I hear the low hum of appliances, the whirring of fans, the on-again, off-again cycle of the HVAC unit, and the faint sounds...
by Guy Sayles | Oct 6, 2017 |
Maybe you remember the desperate and destitute sharecropper in Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath who was being evicted from farming the land by its owners who had to return it to the bank. The “owner men,” as Steinbeck called them,. . . were all...
by Guy Sayles | Sep 19, 2017 |
Jesus once said: “Every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old” (Matthew 13:52). A householder managed a large estate on behalf of its wealthy owners:...
by Guy Sayles | Sep 15, 2017 |
This afternoon, I had the joy to be part of a conversation occasioned by the visit of choreographer Ronald K. Brown who is the artistic director of Evidence Dance Company (scheduled to perform in Asheville on November 10-11 at the Diana Wortham Theater). Diana...
by Guy Sayles | Sep 14, 2017 |
This past Monday was the somber 16th anniversary of the 9/11/2001 terror attacks: a plane went down in a Pennsylvania field, another plowed into the side of the Pentagon, and two became passenger-bearing bombs which brought down the Twin Towers of the World Trade...
by Guy Sayles | Sep 3, 2017 |
The images of devastation wrought by Hurricane Harvey have been stunning and overwhelming: whole cities and towns under water; highways turned to rivers; thousands driven from their homes, and hope nearly drowning in despair. It will take years and billions of dollars...
by Guy Sayles | Aug 17, 2017 |
Both sides in Charlottesville last weekend were not the same. To claim, as the President of the United States did, that the neo-Nazis, Klansmen, alt-righters, and ethno-nationalists—clad in body armor, carrying torches, wearing swastikas, bearing Confederate Battle...
by Guy Sayles | Aug 8, 2017 |
Last week, I took a few days to be alone, hike, read, and reflect. My heart had become a clamorous echo chamber; I needed quiet solitude and the sweet music of wind in the trees, water flowing and falling over rocks, the rumble of an occasional thunderstorm, and...
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