Former American Press staff writer Sunny Brown Farley writes "Naked Faith," a look at faith in its natural form: lived out in the day-to-day lives of ordinary people.

Building Something Everlasting

This week is Missions Week at one of the large churches in downtown Tyler.

Groups of men, women and children are working all over town on dozens of projects. They meet for lunch and dinner to have a time of sharing stories, songs, prayer and devotionals.

The Wesley Foundation, which is the United Methodist Church’s campus ministry [...]

Decisions, decisions

One day my son came home from school and said he was a bad boy. It almost broke my heart. He isn’t a bad boy.

He does, however, make bad decisions sometimes.

For example, he recently colored a closet door with an ink pen. It was a bad, bad decision and that’s what we told him.

Since becoming [...]

Cookies for Uncle Joe

Today is Trinity Sunday and I can’t think of a topic that is more fun to talk about than the Holy Trinity. One God in three persons – the Trinity. My New Testament preacher at seminary used to say the Trinity is bad math, but good theology.

Any idea how many times the word trinity is [...]