Copies of the weekly “Grace Notes” column that I write for the Griffin Daily News and FBC Griffin newsletter.

Reclaiming Healing Space

March 12, 2021

“The hospital looks and feels like a war zone,” cried one headline in March 2020. Sadly, numerous subsequent headlines have …

Reclaiming the Wasteland of Social Media

March 5, 2021

“I just want to see to see pictures of cute babies, dog videos, and funny cat memes. Is that too …

February 26, 2021

“There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places” (Wendell Berry). Perhaps more than any other, the …

February 19, 2021

“There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.” Wendell Berry’s words frame my own thinking this …

February 12, 2021

Wendell Berry is the kind of Baptist I want to be when I grow up. A Kentucky farmer, the 86 …