Writing

David W. Perkins, Th.D. david@davidwperkins.com (Note: These are unedited notes from a lecture on this topic, delivered in various...

Your visual tune hums in my soul, shimmering in the fading light. You flow insistently among, over and around the granite boulders and...

As the sun slid behind those Georgia ridges to the west, painting a layer of carmen and crimson along the horizon, I set out to walk to...

Marge Piercy once wrote, "Hope sleeps in our bones like a bear waiting for spring to rise and walk."* I am struck by how pervasive and...

While serving as associate rector at St. James’ Episcopal Church in Marietta, Georgia, someone asked me, "Are you happy at St. James'?"...

In 1998, during my last year of Episcopal ministry in Louisiana, my son, Ben, and I lived in a cabin on Bayou DeSiard in Monroe. The...

"Normally we come into the world headfirst, like divers into the pool of humanity. . . . We grow down, and we need a long life to get on...

My first charge as a 20 year old Baptist "preacher boy" college student was the Longstraw Baptist Church, ten miles southeast of Ruston,...

Practicing Radical Hospitality The Rev. David W. Perkins, Th.D. Hebrews 13:2 cautions us. “Do not neglect to practice hospitality,...