by Steve Beard | Aug 30, 2014 | Uncategorized
My son John Paul just turned 18 years old. I fired off my first letter to him when he was four days old. “All of this is to simply say that you were wanted and we are so glad that you have arrived,” I concluded back in 1996. When he turned 13, family friends wrote him...
by Steve Beard | May 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
Tremendous interview from NPR’s David Greene with Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist — the husband and wife duo behind Over the Rhine. This conversation took place last year shortly after the band released Meet Me at the Edge of the World. This is one...
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...
