Posts from August 2018

Promise and Expectation

It is the beginning of another school year in Tallahassee. It’s a time of promise and expectation. Walking through the first “Market Wednesday” on campus, bumping into organization after organization trying to get members – I felt that promise and expectation. There are 6,000 new students on campus. They feel it. They have been accepted…

Talk to a Student

This is based on a short talk that our own Professor Henry Fuelberg gave us last week after worship.  Pastor has been saying,  The students are coming!  The students are coming! He is like our very own Paul Revere—but without a horse, and not telling us at midnight. What’s the big deal? And why is Fuelberg talking…

Meet Generation Z

Put away those books on Millennials (or Gen Y, or Mosaics, or whatever generational term you have been taught to call people that were born from the late 80’s to the early 2000’s). It is time to pick up a book on Gen Z (or Homelanders, or Pluralists, iGeneration, or whatever generational term you have…

Care Bear Theology

The predominant narrative in the Winters family is Christ’s narrative, however, our secondary narrative seems to be shifting. We had been a “Sofia the First” household, but we are steadily becoming a “Care Bears/Care Bear Cousins” household.  I appreciated Sofia, but I actually like the Care Bears. I’m talking about the new Care Bears that…

Relations

My Aunt Elsie was our family’s amateur genealogist. Every time we visited Aunt Elsie (who was actually Great Aunt Elsie), she would impress upon me new stories and things that she had learned about our Winters side of the family. She would display pictures and tell stories of the heroes and outlaws of our family…