by Steve Beard | Mar 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
On the eve of Passover By Steve Beard “Lord, have mercy,” was really the only exasperated prayer I could offer after hearing the news of a deranged neo-Nazi shooting people outside of a Jewish Community Center in Kansas. When I heard that one of the victims was a...
by Steve Beard | Nov 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
By Steve Beard Even Cicely Tyson was surprised. As a seasoned and award-winning 80-year old actress of the screen and stage, you would imagine that few things in show business would catch her off-guard. “I didn’t realize they were doing it until someone remarked to me...
by Steve Beard | Oct 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
By Steve Beard Providentially, my last trip to Nashville dovetailed with the grand opening of the Johnny Cash Museum — right down the street from the Ryman Auditorium and all the honky-tonks. I’ve been a life-long fan. Quite literally, I distinctly recall the Johnny...
by Steve Beard | Oct 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
The following sermon by Steve Beard was delivered July 21, 2013, in the Honolua United Methodist Church in Maui, Hawaii. Yesterday, there was a young woman sunning herself in the ocean on one of those personal air mattress rafts just a few miles down the beach from...
by Steve Beard | Sep 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
Someone is going to get a nice Christmas gift. Sotheby’s will be auctioning off three of Norman Rockwell’s most popular visions of small-town Americana. “Saying Grace,” “The Gossips” and “Walking to Church” all appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post....
