Life, leadership and a generous orthodoxy for all of us. And why we grind the beans.
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A Gospel of Life or a Culture of Death
Good morning friends. I am wishing you a day of rest and peace on this Saturday morning. We arrived back on U.S. soil this week, my renewal leave concludes today, actually, and I am energized to move back into the work as we journey in the...
Renewal as a Spiritual Journey (October 3, 2026)
Good morning friends! We are in October, the weather is turning, and I look forward to the changing leaves in the Western North Carolina piedmont and mountains.
The Medici Garden in Paris on a beautiful fall day
Today is our last day i...
Free Man in Paris
The way I see it, he said, you just can’t win it
Everybody’s in it for their own gain
You can’t please em all
There’s always somebody calling you down
I do my best and I do a good business
There’s a lot of people asking for my time
Th...
Random Notes on a Fall Saturday (September 19, 2026)
I spend less time on social media these days, but the platforms seem to imagine that I have more interest in Lane Kiffin than I actually do. As a child of the deep south I am a fan of college football. But in my experience the behaviors of...
Serve Joyfully (September 12, 2026
This weekend I am in a training program in spiritual direction at Kanuga, which is near Hendersonville. It has been rich and full, and very relevant to my life and ministry. I am grinding the beans, watching the U.S. Open (Ben Shelton!), an...
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UMC bishop in Western North Carolina, Bishop-in-Residence at Duke Divinity School, and author of Unrelenting Grace (Abingdon). And I grind the beans.
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