Laura Giffin

December 2, 2021 Dear Doubters of Great Faith, Advent is the season of new beginnings, yet again, for us as Christians, as we strain toward the light of Incarnation that we know streams from a manger, and yet we wonder in our wanderings, will it come again?  For isn’t that the question that haunts our journeys through most every wilderness time?  I know light has split darkness, every single time, and yet, as I look to the future, I still wonder, will it again?  Can I move in assured confidence that as I step out in darkness, God will meet me with light?  Will everything be ok? The ever reoccurring themes of Advent tell us, again and again, through hope, peace, love, and joy, that the light WILL meet us in our wanderings. A baby can, will, and does save our world.  We don’t take that for granted; rather we…

November 17, 2021 Dear Doubters of Great Faith, On Saturday, November 20, 2021, at 11 am, in Pegasus Plaza (1500 Main) in downtown Dallas, a significant singular moment in the life of our city will finally be acknowledged.  A man will be “re-membered,” a marker placed, after he was so tragically and horrifically “dis-membered.” One Mr. Allen Brooks, sometime 59-year-old handyman who’s only proven crime was the pigment in his skin, was lynched, strung up from a light pole, his garments stripped as souvenirs, his only remaining likeness being postcards printed up to glorify the sadistic event, for the purpose of making a clear statement about the eventual outcome of such crime of color. Moments in time are important.  They don’t go away.  You are important.  I am important.  Mr. Allen Brooks is important. “But Father, that was then, and this is now.  Our city has moved on from such…