I’ve changed the name of this blog from Parsley, SAGE, Rosemary, and Time to Sacred Journey. P,S,R,&T was part of an inside joke based on my ID of “rumorsage” on the RMFO.NET board. As there are now people outside that community reading these pages, I thought it was time for a new name.
Sacred Journey comes [...]

Just remembered a great quote from one of my favorite books that I used to read aloud to my sixth grade students:
The three laws of learning:
see much…
hear much…
suffer much…

from The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander

Real Live Preacher is a blog I found in Pastor Pat’s link list. The Preacher is a wonderful writer who is very transparent about both the wonders and terrors of a journey with God. His writing reminds me of that of Frederick Buechner, one of my favorite authors.
Warning: the Preacher sometimes uses language that [...]

Just a short thought inspired by this post from the blog of Pastor Pat.
OK, I confess…on a recent Sunday I disobeyed the worship leader.
I guess I never realized how bossy contemporary worship leaders can be until I became one myself and started really paying attention to how other leaders led. One of the first things [...]

As I’ve been going on and on about in this space, Karyn and I are about to fulfill a lifelong dream, not just of going to seminary, but of going to Westminster (Philadelphia), home turf of many of my modern-day heros of the faith (Van Til, Vos, Machen, etc.). There is no doubt that our [...]

Today something terrible that we’ve known for a long time was a possibility became a reality.
Tests show that our granddaughter Maggie, second child of our oldest daughter, has inherited her father’s very rare genetic defect that leaves her open to severe medical problems in her future. In her father’s case, it resulted in the [...]

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This will be a “ketchup” post (as in “catch up” — get it? huh? huh? do you get it?), since I’ve neglected these pages for some time now.
The Wedding
Two weekends ago we were in Philadelphia for the wedding of our dear friend Nancy. Nancy, never married, and 40-something like us, had returned last year [...]

Today, my LSW (Long Suffering Wife) Karyn entered the world of blogging with Westminster Confessions, in which she will chronicle our time at Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia.

When a blog post becomes great literature.