A few months ago, during worship, as the congregation was standing and singing together, I noticed something.   My friend, Alan Nesbitt, a music teacher who often leads singing for our church, had his tuning fork stuck in his belt.  He wasn’t leading singing that day, but he still had his tuning fork with him.  My first thought was […]

There is a thought I hear quite often.  It’s presented with such confidence that those who say it seem to think the matter settled.  This is how it goes: humans are most human when they surrender to their appetites and abandon all to instinct.  To resist one’s impulse is to deny one’s self.  Remarkably, this […]