A Few Words From Dale… Every year I am asked the question. And every year I must relearn the answer because the answer is so implausible, it never sticks. “Tell me again,” someone asks, “why is it called Good Friday
A few words from Dale… April 3, 2014
Lent is about understanding sacrifice in general and Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross in particular. As though this weren’t hard enough, more and more we live in a sacrifice-aversive culture, where many people hold that nothing is worth sacrificing our
A Few Words From Dale… This Sunday our text is the Beatitudes. While they are familiar–these brief blessings over unlikely characters–the church hasn’t known what to do with them across the centuries. Some see the Beatitudes as virtues and remake
A Few Words From Dale… January 16 2014
It could hardly have gone any better. Cecile and I returned to Darien last night from the Dominican Republic. And I know you are going to inquire how the Habitat for Humanity Global Village Work Trip went. And all I
A Few Words from Dale, December 5, 2013
A few words from Dale… A personal hero of mine is Clarence Jordan. He mentored Millard Fuller, who went on to found Habitat for Humanity in 1976. Jordan, a Georgia peanut farmer and scholar of the Greek New Testament, created