Source: The mayor wished them happy birthdays. So did their ­congresswoman. And their children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren. Even Oprah sent them a video message saying happy birthday. It’s not every day that someone turns 100 years old. And it’s really not every day that three childhood best friends hit the centenarian mark together. On Saturday, three D.C. women, best friends for nearly a century, celebrated reaching triple digits during a ceremony at Zion Baptist Church in the 16th Street Heights... Read more

O Lord, make us have perpetual love and reverence for your holy Name, for you never fail to help and govern those whom you have set upon the sure foundation of your loving­kindness; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. BCP Read more

This! (Wow.) Emma was a great cook and I will never forget the first lunch she made for us. Mom and Dad came home for lunch and as we sat to eat Emma was nowhere to be found. Dad found her in the living room eating by herself. He took her by the arm and almost dragged her to our family’s dining table. He looked at her and said “Emma if you are good enough to cook food for us, then you are good enough... Read more

We are now spending more monthly at restaurants and drinking establishments than at grocery stores. Yowzers. Read more

By John Frye   Jesus Roiling His World Ministry in the 1980s included a two year teaching opportunity on the faculty of Moody Bible Institute and being called as pastor to Bella Vista Church, Rockford, MI, where I served 24 years. You can imagine the many books that I read to keep my mind and heart vibrant. Yet, reflecting on the decade of the 80s, two books were profoundly influential on my view of Jesus and pastoral ministry. In the... Read more

I’ve been asked more than once What do you say, then, when you are calling people to … here the words matter but I don’t want to parse them at this point … decision? The Sinner’s Prayer is neither here nor there; it’s not the point; it can be the right thing for the right person but it can (too) easily become a magical potion for some evangelists and for some responders. We need to begin at the core of what... Read more

1. Green: baseball is played on a green field; hockey on white ice. 2. Wrigley, Fenway, Yankee Stadium: name one interesting hockey place. 3. Names: Babe Ruth, Pee Wee Reese, Ernie Banks vs. Wayne Gretzky, Gordie Howe, Bobby Orr. 4. Scoring: single, double, triple, homer vs. “It’s a goal!” 5. Teeth: baseball players have them. 6. Season: summer vs. winter (and even when it’s not winter they have to freeze the place to have a game). 7. Shrine: Cooperstown vs.... Read more

By Joe James, the Education minister at the Southside Church of Christ in Rogers Arkansas SMcK: I want to express my gratitude to Joe James for this exceptional set of solid discussions about the praxis of table. Trusting the Table (5) – The Church is a Sign, Not a Solution This post wraps up my series, “Trusting the Table.” My previous posts have merely been the long road to this one, to bring me to a place to be able to... Read more

The heavyweights have now weighed in about Subordinationism (eternal functional subordination of the Son to the Father), and this weighing in doesn’t even have to deal with the desire to connect male authority and female subordination/obedience to males to the Trinitarian relations, and by heavyweights I mean these names: Bruce McCormack Lewis Ayres Michel Barnes Along with: Liam Goligher Carl Trueman Mike Bird Fred Sanders Scott Swain Michael Allen Fred Sanders has 18 theses on Father and Son, who speaks... Read more