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Why I Deleted Facebook and Twitter
A week and a half ago I permanently deleted both my Facebook and my Twitter, and it is clearly one of the best decisions that I have made. * * * A couple of weekends ago I went on a retreat with the camp staff for ACU’s summer Leadership Camps as I will be working… Continue reading
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There was poetry in you this morning
There was poetry in you this morning with your coffee breath on my tongue and your “I don’t want to miss a second of God’s morning laughter as he wakes the dawn” and your nurse by day but member of the Fellowship of the Ring by night, and fellow traveler with me on the Great… Continue reading
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Life Group
There is a circle of people, all spokes of a wheel stretching out—forever—into the world of creation. Each person’s story, unique, but they have an oddly familiar refrain and I recognize some of the characters because they weave in and out of my life. The people here, the colors of the rainbow—black, white, hispanic, asian—held… Continue reading
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Meat Sacrificed to Idols: “Your Body is a Wonderland”
Are you a moralist? If so, you are likely the sort of person who bleeps cuss words, or skips sex scenes in movies. You don’t drink alcohol or smoke. You don’t buy R rated movies. This misses the point. Aside from its inconsistency (you probably are ok with violence, greed, and divorce in movies), it… Continue reading
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Are You Coming?
It was an interesting medley yesterday morning. Eli Young Band. Eminem. Dashboard. and they all had something unique to say. And I began to think. as the pines of Georgia began to fade and the palms of coastal Florida began to appear as we left those “good ol’ boys” who make peanut butter for starving… Continue reading
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(Day 6, 7, and 8) Justice and Food: Spring Break with the Honors College
Greetings! I have, once more, gone a day without blogging, though that is due more to negligence than to anything else. As I write, I am flying from Jacksonville, FL to DFW. We should arrive in DFW at 8:45 a.m. We are on the last leg of our journey. The previous post ended with us… Continue reading
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(Day 5) Justice and Food: Spring Break with the Honors College
Greetings! As you know, I am a day behind in blogging about my spring break trip with the Honors College. Yesterday was insanely busy. I didn’t get a chance to sit down and rest until after 10:00 p.m. and by that time I wanted to sleep seeing as how we left Charlotte this morning at… Continue reading
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(Day 4) Justice and Food: Spring Break with the Honors College
Greetings! I write to you now from Charlotte, North Carolina! Today’s post will be pretty short as most of what we did today was travel. We awoke this morning, checked out of the hotel, and headed to the same CitySquare food distribution center that we were at yesterday. When we first arrived, we were not… Continue reading
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(Day 3) Justice and Food: Spring Break with the Honors College
Greeting all! Today was even more filled with even more excitement than yesterday. Here is a quick run-down: 1. We volunteered at CitySquare’s food distribution center. 2. We ate lunch downtown at a marvelous taco place. 3. We sat in on a meeting between Larry James and some of his people with Audrey Rowe, who… Continue reading
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(Day 2) Justice and Food: Spring Break with the Honors College
Greetings all! Today was the second day of my journey with the ACU Honors College as we investigate questions of food distribution and justice. Today was packed full of exciting things. We went to church this morning at a predominately African American church in south Dallas called St. Paul Baptist Church. This is one of… Continue reading
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Justice and Food: Spring Break with the Honors College
I wrote this about 3 hours ago on my van ride to Dallas. Enjoy: Greetings all! This is the beginning of my Spring Break, and I am currently in a fifteen passenger van on my way to Dallas. Unlike some folks who go home—or on delightful vacations—I am currently on a trip with the ACU… Continue reading
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I Am Made New
This morning, I walk outside into warm, moist air. The smell of rain greets me: refreshment; renewal; rebirth. Eric, Drew, and I eat at Dixie Pig for breakfast. Long friendship and conversation reinforced by eggs, biscuits and gravy, and “can I getcha more coffee, sugar?” Walking to chapel in the rapidly cooling air; cold rain… Continue reading
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Who is behind the Veil?
After a two-week hiatus in which I read The Prodigal God by Tim Keller and Jesus Wants to Save Christians by Rob Bell, I returned, this morning, to Peter Rollins’ book: Insurrection. I finished it. I have already done one blog post centered on Rollins, so I don’t really want to do another one. If… Continue reading
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We are all a Bunch of Liars
“The split between what we say and what we do is a direct expression of irony. Something we see at, say, a ‘70s party, where people dress up in the most flamboyant of clothes and dance to the most idiosyncratic music of the era while simultaneously ridiculing it. Here people laugh at the music they… Continue reading
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Favorite Quotations
Facebook allows people to list their favorite quotes. But, in the recent change, the quotes section (which has never been particularly highlighted) has been pushed to the bottom of the second page. I don’t think anyone but me actually actively reads other people’s favorite quotes or consistently updates their own quotes. In any case, the quotes I… Continue reading
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Honor the Sabbath, and Keep it Holy
Today at church, Keith preached on the importance of the Sabbath. He said a lot of really cool and valuable things which I won’t go into much detail about here, but he did say something that struck me at my core. He said that Sabbath was not about making yourself worship God for an extended… Continue reading
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My grandfather, Sam Bryant, died this past September. At his funeral I told a story about him. I explained to the people who had gathered to celebrate Grandpa’s life that he had cared about his grandkids. We weren’t annoyances to be ignored. Rather, he invited us into his workshop to “help” him, not that I… Continue reading
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The Struggle
A dog, jealously possessive, proclaims his outrage at my intrusion into his settled home. I am a stranger to him. In his place. Yet he doesn’t bark at the wind caressing his back or at the bird flying against the firmament, nor even the sun staring intently at his domain, which ignores the dog as… Continue reading
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I Resolve to. . .
Christmas is over. It’s always so anti-climactic. We build up and build up and build up, then we have the flurry of activity—opening presents and feasting—and then the next day we toss the tree out onto the curb. Some people are inclined to depression during the Holidays. I suspect that this is because we hope… Continue reading
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How Do You Believe
Amanda and I left Abilene Friday afternoon and headed to Austin. We are staying with my grandparents in Liberty Hill until Wednesday. The picture to the left is from my grandparents’ property. The official reason for the visit is because I am visiting UT’s graduate school on Monday as I consider their graduate program in… Continue reading
About Me
Gregory C. Jeffers
Anglican Christian | Husband | Father | Teacher | Scholar | Poet
G. C. Jeffers 