A familiar sight: J.D. Martinez praising God upon  rounding the bases after hitting a home run.   I’m making a confession: I love watching...

Having been at Providence for over 21 years, I just finished my third sabbatical. As previously explained, sabbatical is a period of rest, ...

Well, kinda. I'm still at Providence, we're still in West Knoxville (actually Farragut instead of Karns now), but we're not fin...

Laurel-covered cliffs atop Mt. Le Conte. Thankfully, our church has a policy allowing full time ministry staff to take significant tim...

Most summers have a theme that just kinda happens. For us, this is the summer of Miss Daisy. Daisy is our 1967 (we think, the previous owne...

As I wrote in the previous post , we went on a little trip to SW Virginia/NW Tennessee. It was a great time. Here are some more pictures and...

Tennessee is, generally speaking, shaped like a long parallelogram. Of course, a closer look reveals a much different and irregular shape. ...