Thinking Critically . . . Acting Faithfully
Bill Jones muses about Baptists, faith, ethics, justice, politics . . . and more
George Webber, the hero (anti-hero?) of Thomas Wolfe’s novel, You Can’t Go Home Again, realizes that “You can’t go . . . back home to the escapes of Time and Memory.” In his litany of such “homes” he includes, “back home to the ivory tower.” In the sense that nothing is the same as when Read more . . .
(NOTE: I published a much shorter version of this review on Amazon.com this past Saturday night. This is the complete original version, which I cut to fit Amazon’s standards.) My wife and I joined Wilshire Baptist Church in August 2004, on the very Sunday that Wilshire was celebrating George Mason’s 15th anniversary as senior pastor. Read more . . .
(Scroll to the end for links to my previous 19 blog tributes to Joanna since her passing.) It was 2½ years ago last evening, February 13, 2021, that I reluctantly left the hospital (per COVID rules) in Fort Worth and returned home, concerned that Joanna had not been very responsive the past few hours. Then, Read more . . .
(NOTE: This is taken from my Facebook post of Friday, August 11, 2023. I post it here to my blog for those who have not seen it on Facebook.) It’s not every day that you get to re-visit an elementary school of your youth, 61 years after you left it. For me, it was never, Read more . . .