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April 2, 2010 The Journey Continues ...
3/25/2010
In the 1930s a young traveler was exploring the French Alps. He came upon a vast stretch of desolate, barren land. It was forbidding and ugly, the kind of place you hurry away from.
Suddenly the traveler stopped dead in his tracks. In the middle of the vast wasteland was a bent-over old man. On his back was a sack of acorns and in his hand a four-foot-long iron pipe.
The man was using the pipe to punch holes in the ground. Then he would take an acorn from the sack and put it in the...Dec. 4, 2009 The Journey Continues ...
12/4/2009
I have always been a fan of the space program. I have, in a way, grown up with NASA. I remember John Kennedy saying:
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the...Oct. 2 The Journey Continues ...
9/25/2009
A few nights ago I sat at a restaurant on the river overlooking downtown Pittsburgh. The city was abuzz in anticipation of the G20 Summit. Boats, bikes, and helicopters gave evidence of significant preparations being made for visitors. The Hilton Hotel erected a huge welcome banner to hide their stalled renovation project and give visitors a good impression as they enter the downtown. Street crews were cleaning sidewalks and gutters to impress visitors. Businesses were actively preparing for...June 5, 2009 The Journey Continues...
6/1/2009
If you've visited our website (www.wpaumc.org) in the last few weeks, you’ve noticed a picture of me in a red windbreaker talking to a Hispanic woman. Contrary to some comments, I am not posing as a Domino’s Pizza deliveryman. Sally and I were privileged to go with a group of bishops and spouses to a Day Workers’ Church/gathering place in Gaithersburg, MD. Casa de Maryland, a migrant worker’s ministry sponsored by the Baltimore-Washington Conference, provides meals,...