by Guy Sayles | Sep 10, 2016 |
Fifteen years ago this weekend, I began my work as pastor of the First Baptist Church of Asheville. Far more significantly, our nation sustained the worst-ever terrorist attacks on United States’ soil.Those attacks left ongoing grief, anger, and anxiety in their wake....
by Guy Sayles | Sep 2, 2016 |
Do we always have to settle for “it is what it is”—to surrender to the status quo?Too often, it feels like we do. Inertia, habit, and sameness seem stronger than any hope we have for change.We know, for instance, what happens to New Year’s resolutions. We’re...
by Guy Sayles | Aug 25, 2016 |
Two intriguing entertainment venues have recently opened in downtown Asheville: Conundrum and Breakout. They create and offer adventures of escape, journeys from lost to found, and mysteries to explore. Participants assume new identities as hostages, questers,...
by Guy Sayles | Aug 17, 2016 |
See my post at the Center for Healthy Churches blog: http://chchurches.org/ministry-election-year/
by Guy Sayles | Aug 12, 2016 |
Before much of the new school year goes by, a child will come home with red, puffy eyes, sagging shoulders, and a wounded heart because of some ugly thing someone has said. I hope no one says to that child: “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never...
by Guy Sayles | Aug 9, 2016 |
Sometimes we do less in order to be more.Sometimes things have to be simpler so that we may deal with complexity.Sometimes we are quieter in order to say more.Sometimes we become gentler as a way of being stronger.Sometimes we lament our way to laughter and grieve our...
by Guy Sayles | Aug 5, 2016 |
Farmer-poet-essayist Wendell Berry claims that there are things about being a farmer which can only be known by living on the land, tending to it in-season and out-of-season, watching how the wind sweeps across it, observing how water flows over it, seeing the tracks...
by Guy Sayles | Jul 29, 2016 |
My Dad was a salesman who could sell almost anything to almost anybody. As the old clichés have it, he could sell sand to beach dwellers and air conditioning to Eskimos.On days when he was to call on important customers, he had a routine to prepare himself: get up...
by Guy Sayles | Jul 21, 2016 |
“It’s a binary choice.” That’s how a lot of people account for the vote they plan to cast for Trump or Clinton. Given the vast ideological differences between the “bases” of the two major parties, it was inevitable that the choice would present itself as a stark...
by Guy Sayles | Jul 15, 2016 |
As many readers of my reflections know, 2½ years ago, I was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma and began a treatment journey from which there wasn’t a pause until very recently. I’m grateful for the reprieve, because it’s giving my body a chance to...
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