Every day, Garrison Keillor sends out a new edition of “The Writer’s Almanac.” He always begins each day’s post with a poem. Today’s poem was by Charles Simic and titled “Nineteen Thirty-eight.” Thinking about his poem written about the year of … Continue reading
Jeff Garrison Skidaway Island Presbyterian Church Acts 4:32-35 November 24, 2019 “The story of Jesus doesn’t end with Jesus,” Eugene Peterson writes in Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places. The Christian story continues on in this community and in … Continue reading
Bonnie Jo Campbell, Once Upon a River (New York: W.W. Norton, 2011), 348 pages. I enjoyed this novel even though it was hard to get through the opening part which included an incestuous rape of Margo, a teenage girl. … Continue reading
Jeff Garrison Skidaway Island Presbyterian Church 1 Timothy 6:17-19 November 17, 2019 Last week scripture from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount was used to explore how we might “look in” on the role money plays in our … Continue reading
Barbara Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (New York: Knopf, 1978), 720 pages including notes and index. Some plates of photos and artwork. The world, or at least Western Europe, seemed to be coming apart in the … Continue reading
Jeff Garrison Skidaway Island Presbyterian Church November 10, 2019 Matthew 6:19-24 Our morning passage comes from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. Jesus forces us to consider what we value. Ponder this. What would you grab if your … Continue reading
