You Make Beautiful Things

You Make Beautiful Things One of my favorite songs is “You Make Beautiful Things” from Gungor, popular around 2011. Songs get attached to major events and help us to process meaning, find words or feelings to help us express emotion, or speak to the context of the time. In Alabama, 2011 saw one of the … Read more

A Good Snake?

snake on a pole

A Good Snake Ever looked at the symbol for the medical profession? It is a snake wrapped around the top of a pole. It is quite an odd symbol. Has curiosity ever overtaken you to wonder why this symbol represents the medical field? If you search “medical symbol” you will get a story about the … Read more

Incarnation and Beyond: Thoughts on How to Change the World

On Tuesday August 30, Joe and Betsy attended a lecture at Auburn University given by Bryan Stevenson, the founder and director of The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) and the author of the recent award-winning memoir Just Mercy. Auburn selected this book as their 2016-2017 Common Book. These thoughts were written by Joe and were inspired by Mr. Stevenson’s lecture … Read more