“Safe!” is what a runner hopes to hear from the umpire when he reaches the bag in baseball. “Safe!” is what children call out when they reach home base in the game of Tag. “Safe” is what we all need to feel at the end of a long, hard day out in the world. “Safe space” is what Lenape Valley Church offers to young and old throughout the week.On Sunday mornings, our children gather from infant throug...  Read More

For all the Saints, who from their labors rest; Who Thee, by faith, before the world confessed. Thy name, O Jesus, be forever blessed Alleluia!Thou wast their rock, their fortress and their might; Thou, Lord, their captain in the well fought fight; Thou, in the darkness drear, their one true Light. Alleluia! On Saturday, Lenape Valley celebrated the life of one of our saints, William A. Burnett. S...  Read More

There has been much talk of peace… promises of peace… peacekeeping missions… talk of peace prizes… and recently the declaration that peace has been achieved after 3000 years in the most embattle region of the world. My newspaper celebrated peace with a picture on the front page above the fold of signatories to a document that the framers claimed would secure peace. But those documents are only as ...  Read More

Each week, I write a Tuesday letter trying to make sense of the world in which we live. My hope is that we can learn to see the world through the lens of Scripture, to see the world as God sees, and to find our place in God’s plan. This week, I tried to find a wise word to offer about the celebration and grief in the Holy Land- the joy of hostages home with their families, and the hopelessness of ...  Read More

Little Pilgrim's Progress by Helen Taylor and Joe Sutphin is a child-friendly, illustrated adaptation of John Bunyan's classic allegory of the Christian life- the challenges and the victories. This book was one of my childhood favorites. I remember vividly the chapter in which Christian discovers that the path to the Celestial City leads straight through a dark forest. He hesitates to enter, reali...  Read More

The call came early Saturday morning. A friend, who pastored a local church, was in intensive care at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. His plea that morning: “I have cancer, and it looks like an uphill battle. Will you come and care for my people while I fight the good fight?” I was a college professor at the time, preaching on Sunday whenever the invitation came. Within hours of th...  Read More