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Building a Recovery Campus in San Bernardino, CA House of Hope will work to help win the war we now wage on this epidemic - to save our families, our community

01/18/2026

We’ve Been to the Mountain Top

It was a cold and rainy night in Memphis, Tennessee. As the sanitation workers were given no provision to get out of that weather, two Black workers had taken refuge in the bin at the back of their truck. Inadvertently, they were crushed to death when the compactor mechanism was triggered. It was that incident and the strike that followed that prompted Dr....

It was a cold and rainy night in Memphis, Tennessee. As the sanitation workers were given no provision to get out of that weather, two Black workers had taken refuge in the bin at the back of…

01/12/2026

Our Baptismal Vows

I vividly remember a critical moment in our confirmation class when I served a medium-sized United Methodist Church out in Ridgecrest. As in the Episcopal Church, confirmation is that ritual wherein one claims for oneself the baptismal vows they made, or were made on their behalf if they were infants I had arrived a little late and Kay our secretary had already let the class of about 8 into my office....

I vividly remember a critical moment in our confirmation class when I served a medium-sized United Methodist Church out in Ridgecrest. As in the Episcopal Church, confirmation is that ritual …

01/04/2026

Let Your Love-Light Shine

The story goes in Matthew that there was an anomaly in the sky, something ajar. More than a shooting star caught their attention. In a world beset by a great malaise, a wonder to behold. In that “bleak midwinter frosty wind made moan.” And moans yet today in the souls of the dispossessed. A very bleak midwinter for those on the streets or sleeping in their cars....

The story goes in Matthew that there was an anomaly in the sky, something ajar. More than a shooting star caught their attention. In a world beset by a great malaise, a wonder to behold…

12/25/2025

Do Not be Afraid

We live in a fearful age. “Precarious” describes the situation of many folk these days. Many of us think the country is headed in the wrong direction, with a sociopathological narcisist at the helm. Heroid incarnate. Destitution is everywhere. On the streets you can smell it, the oder of urine and f***s wafts from the sidewalk encampments of the dispossed. This season many families are food insecure....

We live in a fearful age. “Precarious” describes the situation of many folk these days. Many of us think the country is headed in the wrong direction, with a sociopathological nar…

12/21/2025

All Changed into Blessing

What’s in a name? As parents about to be at the rather advanced age of 40 and 41 we felt especially blessed that a first child was on the way. We had been married 17 years when we found out we were expecting. I’m sure by then our parents had long given up hope of being grandparents. Of course, the question of names began to surface....

What’s in a name? As parents about to be at the rather advanced age of 40 and 41 we felt especially blessed that a first child was on the way. We had been married 17 years when we found…

12/14/2025

Holy Resilience

It is ever into a world torn asunder that faith is birthed. Isaiah speaks to a desolate people, brutally slaughtered, hauled off to exile. Sing us a song of Zion their captors taunted. “How can we sing the Lord’s song in this God-forsaken place,” they sobbed.” No, they sat down by the waters of Babylon and wept. We, like them live in a time of exile....

It is ever into a world torn asunder that faith is birthed. Isaiah speaks to a desolate people, brutally slaughtered, hauled off to exile. Sing us a song of Zion their captors taunted. …

12/08/2025

Fire From an Old Stump

As a young boy I was immersed in our family’s history. Both sides. From my father’s side, it was West Virginia and the Forneys who had been on that land since 1804. There’s where the family graveyard sits, on a small portion of those180 acres. Grandpa Jonathan Forney taught at Bethany College there in the Northern Panhandle. There’s also, until it was recently replaced, a concrete bridge over Buffalo Creek that he built, or engineered....

As a young boy I was immersed in our family’s history. Both sides. From my father’s side, it was West Virginia and the Forneys who had been on that land since 1804. There’s where …

11/30/2025

Instruction Shall Go Forth

“Johnny, don’t go beyond the curb,” my mother would admonish me when I asked to go outside. And if the ball goes out into the street, let someone go get it for you. All instructions to keep me safe. Later there would be other instructions and advice. Like that from my father when I slacked on my homework or came home with terrible grades....

“Johnny, don’t go beyond the curb,” my mother would admonish me when I asked to go outside. And if the ball goes out into the street, let someone go get it for you. All instructions to …

11/16/2025

At a student conference at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, I first encountered a mature, muscular understanding of the Christian faith I had received from Sunday school. The Rev. Joseph Wesley Matthews had been holding forth for several days on an understanding of the faith that led to intentional living, cruciform living for the world. The energy level of those days was unbelievable....

At a student conference at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, I first encountered a mature, muscular understanding of the Christian faith I had received from Sunday school. …

11/12/2025

I remember that as my father got older and began to decline, he would sometimes ask me that I thought happened to us after death. While he was not a church-going person, he had grown up in the cradle of what we now know as the Disciples of Christ denomination. Originally known as the Christian Church, and before that, named after their founder Thomas Campbell, as the Campbellites....

I remember that as my father got older and began to decline, he would sometimes ask me that I thought happened to us after death. While he was not a church-going person, he had grown up in th…

11/02/2025

If there's somethin' strange in your neighborhood · Who you gon' call? (Ghostbusters!) If there's somethin' weird, and it don't look good. Who you gon' call? (Ghostbusters!). Well Halloween’s over and the vampires, skeletons and ghosts have put their costumes away for another year. But we continue to live in frightful times. A lot of scary stuff is out and about – a lot worse than a fantastical 200-foot-tall Pillsbury Dough Boy phantom roaming the neighborhood....

If there’s somethin’ strange in your neighborhood · Who you gon’ call? (Ghostbusters!) If there’s somethin’ weird, and it don’t look good. Who you gon& #8217…

10/20/2025

It has oft been said that there are no atheists in foxholes. When shells are bursting all around, the air is rife with prayer every bit as with smoke. Deafening explosions and smell of cordite bring forth from the human breast desperate sighs and moans of petition to the Almighty. I still remember, safe as it was, our live-fire drill in the Army....

It has oft been said that there are no atheists in foxholes. When shells are bursting all around, the air is rife with prayer every bit as with smoke. Deafening explosions and smell of …

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