In 1959, two albums were released that shook the jazz world: Dave Brubeck Quartet’s Time Out, and Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue. They tracked together through the charts, and both were certified Platinum in 1997. Davis’ has gone on to reach multi-platinum, but Brubeck’s...
Leave spaces and pauses in your sermon for people to think, to comment, to answer, to participate! If you talk like a train engine heading for the station, not only can no one else get a word in, but the metaphors and the meanings will have rushed by so fast…...
How James Gives the World a Cathedralled Finger The photograph for this sermon was kindly provided by Julia Weidemann Winward. Julia told us her story about this very special church: “This steeple belongs to my church in a tiny village in the middle of Siberia. The...
One of the strangest conversations I’ve ever had on the phone was with Charles M. Schulz, the creator of ”Peanuts,” which was read by over 350 million people around the world. He died at age 77 in 2000, and on the 20th anniversary of his death I may tell the…...
“There is nothing that can replace the absence of someone dear to us, and one should not even attempt to do so; one must simply preserve and endure it. At first that sounds very hard, but at the same time it is a great comfort, for one remains connected to… To...
