Category: faith

For 30 years, Doreen Burley of Rawstenstall, England polished her strange and lovely ornament. She let her grandchildren play with it, always returning it to its prominent place on the mantel. In Mar…

In his book "What’s So Amazing About Grace," Philip Yancy wrote this:
“Jesus forgave the thief hanging on a cross, knowing full well the thief had converted out of plain fear. That thief would neve…

Many years ago a pastoral counselor asked me what I thought W.M.Y.H.S. stood for. Because it ends with H.S., my first inclination was to think it was initials for a high school.
After pondering sev…

WEEK IN RELIGION 
The Virginia Senate passed a bill earlier this week that would allow church goers to bring guns into places of worship. The bill reverses a law from the colonial era that forbids …

The young German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed on April 9, 1945 in the Flossenbürg concentration camp, just weeks before the United States Infantry liberated the camp. The Nazis hanged …

Note: Rev. Kilgore was contacted for comments on his retirement, but was working on funeral services for a family member as well as a move. He was therefore unable to comment on this article.

CRES…

You/me. Us/them. We/they. After I got done reading the newspapers this morning I found myself reflecting that many things in our society seem to be based on a contest. 
In our nation, the political…