A Blog by Coe Hutchison
A Letter from Ukraine
When I attended seminary at Regent College, I made friends with a young man from Ukraine. He was studying theology [...]
WAR…And A Few Hopeful Things
WAR! Russia has invaded the Ukraine and many of us are experiencing feelings that we may not have experienced for [...]
Parable of the Lost Sheep-Luke 15:1-7
Photo by Robinson Recalde on Unsplash The parable of the Lost Sheep in Luke 15:1-7 is one of [...]
Friends With God
Photo by Noorulabdeen Ahmad on Unsplash “The Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as one [...]
“Harry’s Trees” by Jon Cohen
Hello Friends, it has been a long time since I have written. We have had some good vacation in Tucson [...]
Love Came Down At Christmas
Photo by Gareth Harper on Unsplash I recently read in an Anne Lamott book, “Love is hard. Love [...]
Trouble At the Inn
Here is the second installment of Christmas stories. This one is "Trouble At the Inn," originally published in Guideposts and [...]
The Christmas Birds
I love Christmas stories. So this year I have video recorded a couple of my favorites as part of an [...]
Christmas Reflections
I have been reading Howard Thurman's, "The Mood of Christmas." It is excellent and I wanted to share two short [...]
Advent Prayers
I recently attended an Advent Quiet Morning prayer retreat. It was great. The extended and repeated periods of silence were [...]
An Invitation to Hope
I have written in this space recently about hope and continue to watch for signs of hope and try to [...]
Jesus Cries Too
This is an excerpt from one of my favorite authors, Frederick Buechner, as reprinted in a recent Compassionate Christianity newsletter. [...]