On the second day of January 1999, I held a small dinner party with a couple of close friends where we staged our own combination memorial services and wakes.
Sermons for 2013
Benedictions
In May 2001, I was serving a small congregation in a small town in North Georgia known for being the site of the very first gold rush in the United States…
Mama’s Day Our Way
Common preaching school wisdom is that we should avoid doing Mother’s Day services, sermons especially, at all costs…
Comes the Poet
Quite a few years ago now, in this very sanctuary, a not-so-young-at-all but very new minister was ordained on a spring Sunday…
Science and Spirit: Darwin’s Singular Notion
Give me that old time religion. Give me that old time religion. It was good enough for little David…
Girls
Some wore wigs or wiglets or falls. They were a Dirty Dozen in all, as they described themselves. But more often, Hood remembers, they were just The Girls.