Fear rules, so let’s be peace makers

I’ve been watching, and I’ve come to the conclusion that fear-focused leaders aren’t the most dangerous, but they can certainly change the temperature of a room, and therefore, over time, the culture. So let’s just give you an example from our own church…. which I say hastily lives in almost every congregation. The fear that…

Happy birthday

Today is Wendy’s birthday. We met when we were 20 and were both trying to get started in the world, working jobs that didn’t pay all that much. Wendy still lived at home and I was boarding with friends. To say we were living on a shoestring is not an exaggeration. We dated for 6…

47 years

In a couple of weeks it will be 47 years since I proposed to Wendy and asked her if she would spend the rest of her life with me. I will be 69 towards the end of this year, my Dad died just short of his 72 birthday as that “line in the sand” has…