by Guy Sayles | Feb 21, 2026 |
Anxiety stalks me with foreboding about impending trouble or looming crisis. I feel its icy grip when a worry I’ve had since childhood surfaces: I’ve been left alone. I’m on my own. I hear its sneering criticisms: You’re not enough and never will be. You can’t do...
by Guy Sayles | Feb 7, 2026 |
Character and values matter. This truth is worth repeating, since who we are shapes what we do, and what we do shapes who we become. As a pastor (now retired), I’ve attempted to avoid partisanship, but some issues and actions transcend politics. The crises our nation...
by Guy Sayles | Nov 19, 2025 |
It’s difficult for many of us to find inner quiet and calm. When we manage, however fleetingly, to be still, we find that clanging, chattering, and confusing noise clamors in our hearts and minds. Much of that noise echoes myriad distractions in the external world,...
by Guy Sayles | Sep 24, 2025 |
In these fraught and frightening times, I need to remind myself of the familiar and stunning promise in the concluding verses of Romans 8: “For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor...
by Guy Sayles | Sep 23, 2025 |
Image credit: Jon Tyson, Unsplash Recently, I was part of a panel discussion on the moral implications and real-world impacts on the vulnerable of H.R. 1, known as the “Big Beautiful Budget Bill,” signed into law by President Trump on July 4, 2025. Representative...
by Guy Sayles | Aug 2, 2025 |
More and more, I am convinced that we can only know others in their wonder and possibility when we see, hear, and experience them through love, particularly the love of God for them which we can experience and extend. Love which flows from God’s love makes possible a...
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