Soaked, Stranded, and Sailing Anyway!

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Soaked, Stranded, and Sailing Anyway!

ByAllen Reding November 6, 2024November 6, 2024

A Slow Crawl Through Torrential Rain

Our vacation began with rain so fierce, it felt like all the fire hydrants in heaven had been opened up. The drive to Galveston turned into a crawl, with each mile washing away a

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Devotional

More Than a Name and a Voice

ByAllen Reding August 16, 2020November 5, 2024

Schools are often so overwhelmed by the sheer number of needy students that their concern becomes institutional.

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A Little Bit of the Griswolds in Us All

ByAllen Reding August 7, 2020

Amid the daily grind, many of us will find ourselves thinking about a future, a time or place that is a respite from our present struggles. In the modern terms, it is us going to \"our happy place\".

Devotional

Bricks, Mortar, and Wishful Thinking

ByAllen Reding August 6, 2020

Is teaching and learning behind masks going to be inherently better and more distraction-free than learning online? I would not bet money on that proposition.

Devotional

Teacher Health Insurance: A Bitter Pill

ByAllen Reding August 4, 2020

I made my annual insurance benefit selections yesterday, and unlike every other year, I did not wait until the last day to do it. When presented with the same bad choices each year, why wait?

Devotional

Shopping as a Traitor to the Carbs

ByAllen Reding July 31, 2020

I walk in the store and old friends like Aunt Jemima and her neighbor, Mrs. Butterworth, look at me as if I’m Judas. I hurry around the corner to escape the look of betrayal in their eyes.

Devotional

Risking the Lives of the Unvalued

ByAllen Reding July 30, 2020

Having lived now for 60 years, I see things much more clearly than ever before. Some of the things I see more plainly are unsettling and even disturbing.

Devotional

What Faith Looks Like in a Pandemic

ByAllen Reding July 28, 2020

I am not attempting to tell any believer how they should respond to the pandemic. Clearly, there are times we must stand our ground in faith, but in other times, wisdom might occasion a different response.

Devotional

Carry On Like Normal

ByAllen Reding July 27, 2020

When the heater in a stifling building would not turn off, we were advised to “carry on like normal”. No power and streams of floodwaters running down dark halls? “Carry on like normal”.

Devotional

Big Assumptions, Big Risks

ByAllen Reding July 26, 2020

There are many benefits to returning to in-person classes, but there are also great costs, most notably, the lives of our teachers, staff, and students.