by Guy Sayles | Nov 12, 2015 |
The best answer to the idea that Joseph had the pyramids built to store grain might be Steve Martin’s classic and hilarious “King Tut. Tut was, Martin sings, buried in a “condo made of stone-a” which is a closer-to-the-facts description of a pyramid...
by Guy Sayles | Nov 3, 2015 |
My post at The Center For Healthy Churches’ bloghttp://chchurches.org/learning-from-politics/
by Guy Sayles | Oct 21, 2015 |
Though I’ve been teaching and supervising Doctor of Ministry students for more than a decade; and have, as a part of that work, read and evaluated an array of personal exploratory essays, theological reflection papers, and summaries of ministry projects, last week, I...
by Guy Sayles | Oct 14, 2015 |
We all know the overworked cliché which defines insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” As worn and familiar as it is, we keep proving its essential wisdom.It happens in the groups of which we’re a part. With...
by Guy Sayles | Oct 7, 2015 |
Yesterday’s bright blue sky, streaked with long and thin white clouds, the shimmering sun, and the slight cooling breeze were such welcome gifts after days of ponderous grey air and pouring rain. With the clinging fog and veiling clouds evaporated from the...
by Guy Sayles | Oct 4, 2015 |
In my dream, I was scheduled to play golf with a friend. Never mind that I haven’t played golf in over a decade, gave my clubs away a few years ago, and wore-out my golf shoes by using them for yard work (they aerated the lawn while I walked!). I scrambled...
by Guy Sayles | Sep 30, 2015 |
Many of us have a troubled relationship with time.Carl Honore wrote an interesting book, In Praise of Slowness: How a Worldwide Movement Is Challenging the Cult of Speed, the idea for which came to him as he rushed through an airport and saw a book entitled The...
by Guy Sayles | Sep 25, 2015 |
Hope is sinewy, tenacious, and determined. It gives us strength when ours is gone, carries us into the future when we’ve been knocked-off our feet by the disappointments of the present, and makes it possible for us to trust that God is with us even when we feel...
by Guy Sayles | Sep 17, 2015 |
Near the end of my morning walk, I passed two men who were ambling in the opposite direction and having a lively conversation with each other. The street was busy and noisy, but I heard one phrase: “Yeah, he was so unusually kind to me that it made me feel kind...
by Guy Sayles | Sep 11, 2015 |
Here’s the address/sermon I gave at the Gardner Webb University School ofDivinity this past Monday. It was based, in part, on the story of Jesus’ encounter with the a Samaritan woman at “Jacob’s well” (John 4).I surely understand...
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