I don’t like change. I don’t know too many people who do but I especially hate it. It could come from moving a lot when I was a kid. It come from an historical awareness that makes me suspicious of any change fulfilling its promise. It is all too possible I’m simply stodgy and lazy […]
Why pray?
This Sunday’s general topic was pretty easy. The story of Hannah that opens 1 Samuel is all about prayer; Hannah prayed, God answered, end of story . . . or is it? I found myself thinking more about the narrower perspective of prayer, in particular, why pray at all? Why do we pray? If God […]