She was Light in a World of Burdens

In a review of one her poetry collections, Kaye Hartley is described as “a spiritual grandmother of our times.” With her husband, Reverend O. Joe Hartley, they planted and pastored churches for decades all across the fruited plain. I met Kaye one evening when she came to a WritersInTheSpirit meeting accompanied by her faithful and […]

Uncle Atticus and the Confederate Flag

The revelation from Harper Lee’s recently released novel “Go Set A Watchman” which caught so many by surprise—that the civil rights hero of “To Kill A Mockingbird,” Atticus Finch, is a racist, was not particularly surprising to many of us Southerners—that is, to those of us who have our own Uncle Atticuses tucked away in our […]

A Great Man Passes Away

This Friday a Celebration of the Life of Fritz Glaus is being held at 3:00pm on the Elevation Church University City campus in Charlotte, NC. Fritz Glaus was a great man. He touched many lives for good—all over the world—particularly in the name of Jesus Christ. I met Fritz during an eGroup recruiting event at […]