Rev. Ethan Brown, Pastor and Minister of Care & Discipleship

There is a monster in my son’s closet. Basil has been convinced of this for many weeks. I tried to assure him that there was no monster, but that was clearly a lie. I tried to comfort him with the presence of his hoard of stuffies that surround him at night, but alas they too are scared of the monster. I tried to add extra night lights, and while helpful, they only reminded him of the darkness that waited in the silence of the closet. This dark corner of his room reared its monstrous head...

Growing up my family's primary vacation each year was a week of tent camping in the Tallulah River Gorge region of North Georgia. My mom agreed to camping as long as my dad did all the cooking. So we would load our tent and sleeping bags, a cooler for food for the week, clothes, fishing poles, and chairs for around the campfire. With my parents, two sisters, myself, and the dog, our minivan was always full to the brim. Thankfully my dad was a master car packer. Every bit of space was...

I have a Mosasaurus in my office.  In case you don’t know, a Mosasaurus is a large aquatic reptile.  Imagine, if you will, a 30 foot monitor lizard with flippers instead of legs and you will be pretty close.  Now mine is not that large, only a few inches across at most.  Its coloring seems off to me - though really who can say what an extinct dinosaur should look like - with a mottled mixture of blues both light and dark across its body and perhaps a yellow patina of mud across its back.  Yet...