The "And from Bill..." Archive

I don’t remember much from my elementary school experience – naps around our kindergarten piano; watching our teacher cry when news of President Kennedy’s assassination came over...

I believe in Christmas; I really do! But I don’t much believe in the trappings our culture attaches to Christmas. The following column from 1996 makes that point fairly well.

Have you noticed...

Still early in my FCCEM ministry, I wrote the following column in part to confirm the suspicion that I was willing to write about anything at any time of the year... including Christmas.

As silly...

Today’s entry is candid and poignant, at least as pastor newsletter columns go.

Sometimes I feel quite reflective and introspective when I write newsletter columns, an experience more likely...

No archive of my past newsletter columns would be complete without today’s entry.

In my early years here I was an even grumpier critic of our culture’s plastic and commercial Christmas...