Pastor Bo: What good are broken things? Ask God
It is Sunday afternoon as I sit at the desk in my church office and write this.
Dad, you are the man — here’s why
The other parental holiday is now upon us, the one that is not the main source of flower sales in America and is not a leading source of greeting card sales and is not gifted with its own hymns and songs.
Pastor Bo: The sights and sounds of a healthy church
I want to be careful here not to do what I detest in others, namely, making my church out to be the model of what all churches should be. There is something about pastoral smugness that makes me want to stick a hot french fry up someone's nose and pray for them while they unintentionally speak in tongues.
Pastor Bo: A fill-in-the-blanks column on race and responsibility
The video was heartbreaking and raw.
Pastor Bo: The value of a community table and other old-fashioned things
My children are overly fond of pointing out to me that I am not in step with modern times. They are simply aghast that I do not have an iPhone, use proper punctuation even when texting and hand-write most letters, in cursive, no less. I, on the other hand, am fond of pointing out to them that I also do not eat Tide Pods, have never had anyone's words send me scurrying for a "safe space" and earned a doctorate without the benefit of Google.
Pastor Bo: The amazing, ordinary little boy in purple (Part 1 of 4)
Dear readers of this weekly column, I very much appreciate you. So, between now and the end of the year, please enjoy a Christmas story in four installments, my gift to you and your family!
Pastor Bo: The contest for ‘Most Ironic Statement Ever’ is officially over
"Now more than ever, we're short of workers, we have a population that is not reproducing on its own with the same level that it used to. The only way we're going to have a great future in America is if we welcome and embrace immigrants, the Dreamers and -- all of them. 'Cause our ultimate goal is to help the Dreamers but get a path to citizenship for all 11 million or however many undocumented immigrants."
Pastor Bo: Have some holiday cheer, or else
There are seven instances of the words "good cheer" in the Bible.
Pastor Bo: There’s beauty in varied opinions, even about coleslaw
It started, I suppose, with coleslaw.
Pastor Bo: Protect the blessings of liberty in the voting booth
The big news of the day was that I was blessed to lead a precious 80-year-old lady to the Lord while she was lying in a hospital bed just days from death.
