Gayle Tabor

Category: Armchair Theology

The Letter That Stirred a Nation – And NEEDS To Again

2025/01/20 Gayle 0

In the spring of 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. sat in a cramped jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama, penning one of the most powerful documents of the Civil Rights Movement. Arrested for participating in nonviolent protests against racial segregation, King responded to a group of local white clergy who had criticized the demonstrations as “unwise and untimely.” His response, later titled “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” stands as a profound exploration of justice, morality, and the urgency of action. On this day January 20th, 2025 – Martin Luther King Day and Inauguration day for Donald Trump – the only convicted felon to serve as President, a dubious honor and a absolute commentary on our society and how far we have digressed as a people, it The rest of the story

Blessing Of The Animals

2022/10/03 Gayle 0

Perhaps the Blessing of the Animals is the favorite thing I get to do!! Here are my words from Sunday October 2, 2022: Ecclesiastes 3:18-22 Common English Bible I also thought, where human beings are concerned, God tests them to show them that they are but animals because human beings and animals share the same fate. One dies just like the other—both have the same life-breath. Humans are no better off than animals because everything is pointless. All go to the same place: all are from the dust; all return to the dust. Who knows if a human being’s life-breath rises upward while an animal’s life-breath descends into the earth? So I perceived that there was nothing better for human beings but to enjoy what The rest of the story

A Christmas Lesson (good all year)

2020/12/14 Gayle 0

So I’m a little bah humbug on Christmas this year. Nothing will be like every other year…we’ll be home at dhachaigh rather than Tobaccoville at mama’s (where I’ve spent every one of my 57 Christmases). I can be curmudgeonery anyway and this year has a millionth dose. Anyway, last Saturday night I got all excited to put up a tree! So we bought a coupon – a $40 tree for $28 – an NC TREE from a local store! Win – Win – Win, right…nope all their $40 trees were ~4ft (who wants to look down on the angel?). So I bah humbuged and grumbled (and grumbled about Christmas, about spent money, about…well, everything – it’s a rabbit hole). During the week we went to The rest of the story

Branches

2017/03/29 Gayle 0

Yesterday I preached for the Harbor District Lay Servant Ministries Committee. Here’s my sermon: I have a confession. I am a horrible gardener! I can, and do kill most any plant – I either love it too much or not enough I either cut it back too far or let it grow out of control I am not proud to say…..I can kill mint! In our scripture today is John 15: 1-8 (reading from the common English bible) “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vineyard keeper. 2 He removes any of my branches that don’t produce fruit, and he trims any branch that produces fruit so that it will produce even more fruit. 3 You are already trimmed because of the word I have spoken The rest of the story

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