Dear Friends, I am back. An annual business meeting required my presence in Vermont the first week of October. Patricia and I have traveled to this meeting by different routes over the years. We have driven there different years from Charleston, North Carolina, Niagara Falls, Washington D.C., and Bar Harbor, Maine. We have flown into
A Word of Grace – September 23, 2016
Dear Friends, This will be the last message until October 10, the week of the eighteenth anniversary of the Word of Grace messages. Everything is fine with me, but I need to take a short hiatus to tend to something else. Thank you for subscribing or reading when someone else passes it on to you.
A Word of Grace – September 11, 2016
Dear Friends, It is 15 years ago this weekend since the horror of the terrorist attacks of 9/11. I looked back at the message I sent out the week after the attack in curiosity about how my thinking may have changed. Here is an updated version of the same message. My thinking hasn’t changed. As
A Word of Grace – September 7, 2016
Dear Friends, I share with you today one of those Scriptures which illumines how God will use even those things we despise and fear to help us move forward in his will. The Lord said: . Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the
An Interview with Crystal Hurd
Steve Elmore: Today I’m going to interview Dr. Crystal Hurd, an alumnus of three of our Foundation C.S. Lewis Retreats. SE: Tell us about what you do, both in terms of work and personal pursuits. Crystal Hurd: I am currently employed as a high school English and Creative Writing teacher, but my indulgence is Lewis scholarship. I’m