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March 2025

March 06, 2025

When Truth Is Dead, Love Must Live

There was a time when truth mattered. When a fact was a fact, when reality...

August 2023

August 24, 2023

Is Love REALLY All We Need?

Love is a concept that is universal and timeless. It is something that transcends religion,...

May 2023

May 26, 2023

Why Conditional Love is So Deadly to Our Hearts

Love is a fundamental human need. We all crave love and affection, and we seek...

July 2017

July 05, 2017

Flowers for the Living

It was a big day nonetheless. Graduating from seminary, I enjoyed family and friends here...

June 2017

June 09, 2017

An Unclaimed Body – the Last Victim of Pulse. Where is the Love?

At a time when a parent weeps uncontrollably, mourning the death of their precious child,...

April 2017

April 19, 2017

My Easter Sunday with Jen Hatmaker and Her Downtown Friends

What would Jesus do on Easter Sunday? As I stood under the bridge in downtown...

May 2016

May 04, 2016

Love or Hate? It’s in the Eye of the Receiver

“What sorrow for those who say that evil is good and good is evil, that...

July 2015

July 01, 2015

What Does It Look Like To Love Someone?

Look at that face! Tao Porchon-Lynch is 96-years old and brought the house down with...

May 2015

May 04, 2015

I Just Want To Be Loved. Is That So Wrong?

“My heart is heavy. My daughter’s friend killed himself on Thursday. No one knows why...

March 2015

March 31, 2015

Finding Truth at Austin Food Trucks

Austin is renowned for food trucks. In my neighborhood is a great little coffee truck -...

February 2015

February 14, 2015

Jesus Blog: How Does Jesus Want You to Love Each Other?

More today from my Saturday “Jesus Blog” – a word from Jesus to you… It...

September 2012

September 28, 2012

Unachievable Love

Love. God's love. To love another without condition of receiving anything in return. OH. MY....