by CarleneByron | Aug 1, 2023 | Faith and Culture
The high-school slumber parties of the early 1970s were staggeringly boring by 21st century standards. There was no TikTok to scroll or SnapChat for sending cruel messages that would disappear from view before the targeted classmate could call her mother to intervene....
by CarleneByron | Oct 1, 2019 | Leadership
Welcoming marginalized people is often seen as a challenging task beyond the resources of the ordinary congregation. But the smallest congregations often do an outstanding job of including the marginalized as part of the family of God. It’s six months since John died,...
by CarleneByron | Mar 1, 2018 | Leadership
I encountered Ecclesiastes long before I knew much about God. My honors English teacher forced our roomful of ambitious high school juniors to dig through the King James text to figure out what the word vanity means. “Vanity of vanities … all is vanity” (Eccl. 1:2,...
by CarleneByron | Aug 1, 2017 | Faith and Culture, Leadership
Once again, it was Winnie and me behind the bake sale table, while all the real excitement of the annual plant sale swirled through adjacent rooms. Winnie is a whiz at organizing the diverse, nearly random donations from friends of the land trust. Arrayed around us on...
