What is True and What is Right
This piece was featured by Baptist News Global and delivered as a sermon at Madison Avenue Baptist Church on January 2, 2022. Due to the recent spike in COVID infections in New York City, our church … Read More
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This piece was featured as an article in The Christian Century as well as broadcast as a sermon at Madison Avenue Baptist Church NYC . I am a liberal arts major from the disco-era who is enamored with the … Read More
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This piece was also featured as a nationally syndicated column with Gannett. There are a lot of things that the Bible doesn’t tell us. For instance, what did Jesus do between … Read More
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This piece was also featured as a nationally syndicated column with Gannett. It’s hard for me to believe that New York City (where I now live) is part of the … Read More
The Power of a Pinwheel
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