Our clergy will post an article each business day. Their thoughts and reflections will cover a wide array of topics, focusing on both Saint Luke's issues and those pertaining to the wider community. We hope you will return regularly to participate in our discussions. This commentary is for you, which means your feedback is very important to help guide our article topics. You are welcome to leave your own thoughts and reflections in the comments section at the end of each article.
May God bless you!
by Steve DeGweck
I cannot remember a time in my adult life when I have witnessed so much uncertainty about the future. I have lived through the Kennedy assassination, the Cuban missile crisis, Watergate, the Nixon and Clinton impeachment proceedings, 9/11, and all the rest. Looked at in perspective, I think we overreact a bit to [...]
by Rebecca DeBow
I love a fresh start! This year I hope to pray more and worry less. I admit, that’s my resolve every year. I hope I never give up on God’s plans for me, the mystery unfolding beneath every step I take. At the same time, I want to offer my own plans to [...]
by Rich Webster
A friend of mine passed along the story of a man who saved children in the months before the start of World War II. The year was 1938, and the man was single and living in London when he took a chance vacation to Czechoslovakia. It was here that he noticed groups of people [...]
by Steve DeGweck
Can you imagine what the coming of the Son of God to earth would look like if it were to happen today? Reporters, TV cameras, interviews, a world-wide media extravaganza! Twenty-four-seven reporting from the birth place, a little obscure town suddenly overrun with journalists, pundits, onlookers, and souvenier shops–can you just see it? The thought [...]
by Rebecca DeBow
Our money is more than money. Our money represents our very selves. Think how important money is, how often we consider it. While no one wants to be ruled by money, we have to pay attention to it. What we do with our money, speaks. My friend Doug Carpenter says if you want [...]
by Rich Webster
My last Advent Sermon was about dreaming, so in a sense it is was not just an Advent sermon, but a sermon for anytime of the year. The dream I referred to is for a better world, a kinder world, a safer world, a gentler world, a more confident world, a more sensitive world, a joyful world, a just world, [...]
by Chris Girata
I love Christmas cards. Receiving cards from family and friends is a highlight of the holidays, especially when they include pictures… and it’s the pictures that I’m interested in discussing here. I can remember my grandmother displaying her Christmas cards around her fireplace — dozens of beautiful cards with beautiful images. What I [...]
by Steve DeGweck
Is it me or are cars getting bigger by the day? As I drive along in my little Prius, I am passed regularly by herds of gigantic SUVs racing who-knows-where, usually occupied by one person. Getting pushed aside, nearly run off the road, and treated as invisible is getting to be a daily [...]
by Rebecca DeBow
Will Willimon said before you can go to medical school, you have to pass organic chemistry. Before you can practice law, you have to pass the bar. And before you get to Christmas, you have to pass John the Baptist.
He comes every year, wearing weird clothes, eating disgusting food and calling me names. [...]
by Rich Webster
We held our annual Outreach Fair in Graham Hall yesterday, and as always it was fascinating to see not only the sheer number of ministries we support in the metro Birmingham area, but also the creativity and passion these people feel for the neediest of God’s children. Regardless of the ministry or non-profit, however, there was a [...]
