Category: Going The Distance

Family Friday: Keep The Bible Off The Shelf

by Merrill Noble / Family Friday / Going The Distance / No Comments / September 11, 2020

My family of origin has given me the unofficial role of being the family historian. Upon the deaths of my paternal grandmother and then my mother, I received boxes and trunks filled with unsorted ancestral treasures. While this wholeheartedly satisfied my personal interest, curiosity and need for order, the endless decisions about what to keep […]

Communion

by Dawson Taylor / Going The Distance / No Comments / September 10, 2020

“When [Jesus] was at the table with them, [Jesus] took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them.” Luke 24:30 (NRSV) Over the holiday this past weekend, I watched one of my all-time favorite films, “The Help.” While a movie recounting deep racial tensions during the times that we are living through can […]

Armaggedon or Artistry?

by David Kaiser-Cross / Going The Distance / No Comments / August 31, 2020

He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. (Matthew 3:11c) Snuggled down here in Florida, Deb and I, and the kids, have been watching anxiously as fires out in California have consumed not only precious timberland, but precious home and lives. A couple of weeks ago, an unusual weather pattern over the […]