by Guy Sayles | Jan 22, 2016 |
We’ve gotten about six inches of snow at our house, and forecasts call for a lot more. Earlier in the week, since it was likely that the roads between Asheville and Huntington wouldn’t be safely passable this weekend, I reluctantly bowed-out of preaching at Fifth...
by Guy Sayles | Jan 14, 2016 |
Yesterday, I went to the first session of what I thought was my Introduction to the New Testament Class. For about 10 minutes, I gave a broad overview of the ways we’d approach our engagement with the scriptures. Then, a student spoke up and said: “I have you for New...
by Guy Sayles | Jan 8, 2016 |
This week, schoolchildren headed back to the classroom, the 12 Days of Christmas culminated in the Feast of Epiphany, and the reckoning with credit card bills from December’s shopping sprees has begun. College football fans, especially in the South, made plans...
by Guy Sayles | Jan 1, 2016 |
As the New Year begins, I am grateful for so much:Poetry, music, and “children’s books.”Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon.Restaurants where I don’t need a menu.Restaurants where I not only need a menu but a translator and guide.Our “puppy” (eight years old!),...
by Guy Sayles | Dec 31, 2015 |
“I wouldn’t give you a nickel for simplicity on this side of complexity, but I’d give you my life for simplicity on the far side of complexity.”In a lecture he gave when I was a seminary student, Ernest Campbell, then the preaching minister at the Riverside Church in...
by Guy Sayles | Dec 25, 2015 |
My great-grandmother Tiny (her name was actually Tina) was a “character.” One day, while sweeping her front porch, she slipped and fell down the three or four stairs that connected the porch to the walkway. She hurt her ankle, but managed to get to her feet and...
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