10
Jun 2019
I am a fraternity man. Or I was. It’s been a while so I’m not sure what still applies and what doesn’t. And in 2019, I’m not convinced I’d be one today if I were starting college all over again. I don’t really intend for this post to be an indictment of fraternities, particularly mine. That’s something I’ll need to cover in more length than a blog post. And one day I will. I’ll simply say that when I was a student at Furman University in the mid-1990s, Greek culture was rooted......
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07
Aug 2018
We’ve been programmed to remember the Last Supper as the First Communion. And it was in a formal sense. But in reality, that kind of meal was nothing new. Jesus offered Communion everywhere he went. Jesus saw every gathering as a potential table. And he understood humanity’s need for constant refueling. I think what separated Jesus from others, was his concern for marginalized persons — Where were their tables? Where were their sources of community? Where was their source of refreshment for the heart, for the soul, for the body, for the......
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