By Jim Teague, FPCE Director of Communications One of the wonderful traditions my stepfather passed down to his kids (in a blended family of seven) was the Christmas Eve tradition of reading a different story about the holiday right after reading the Scripture’s accounts of the birth of Jesus from Matthew and Luke. It

Thoughts from Jim Teague FPCE director of communications. Dear Friends – Abstract digital globe illustrating the exchange of cultural content across international borders, On a cloudy Sunday afternoon, May 25, 1986, I drove to a middle school outside of Springfield, Ohio, (yes, that Springfield), parked my car and walked with my girlfriend

Thoughts from Jim Teague FPCE director of communications. Dear Friends – “Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you

Thoughts from Jim Teague FPCE director of communications. Dear Friends – When we think about the toll war takes on a country or a city, we usually (rightly) think in terms of loss of life, injury, and the trauma inflicted on the soldiers and citizenry. We might extend those thoughts to the damage done

Thoughts from Jim Teague FPCE director of communications. I recently read the book “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life” by author Anne Lamott. Truthfully, I didn’t read the book. As is my way more and more, I listened to it as an audiobook. This one was narrated by Lamott herself. Her unique

Thoughts from Jim Teague FPCE director of communications. There is probably nothing in this life that keeps me more grounded in my relationship with Jesus than music. I simply cannot imagine spending the last 40+ years of walking in faith (sometimes more successfully than others) without having had songs and hymns to turn to in

Thoughts from Jim Teague FPCE director of communications. If you play golf anywhere near as badly as I do, then you understand what it means to have a bag full of options and none of them good. I have, on rare occasion, hit my driver straight and true, but rare is the hole where I