Author: Tom Denham

Many people are familiar with the prayer that begins “Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.” It is part of the midday prayers at http://commonprayer.net/midday-prayers, so I pray it frequently. The prayer feels too...

Developing a habit of daily prayer is the biggest development of 2016 for me. Before 2016, I prayed occasionally, very occasionally. Now I pray as regularly as I eat and drink. Because prayer has become important to me, I...

I got to talking with one of my neighbors when he was walking by my house on Thursday morning. He observed that I had a dead tree in my back yard. I am in my back yard every day and knew he was mistaken. He pointed over the roof...

I have never been one to make lists. I don’t shop from a list at the grocery store. I have never made a list of what to pack before a trip and rarely create a to-do list to keep myself on-track with projects. With rare...

A middle school in Birmingham, Alabama decided to try save their most at-risk children from the all too common fate of at-risk children in poor, black neighborhoods. They assigned their best teacher. They assigned an experienced...