Welcome! I am a retired United Methodist pastor and author. Here you will find all the original stories from my book, The Carpenter and the Unbuilder (Upper Room 1996) as well as some other published and unpublished stories. I’ve also made a place for some of my favorite sermons, illustrations and such, as well as new thoughts. Finally I’ve added several recent videos of a story I told pretty much every Christmas Eve when I was an active pastor (with the help of my 1984 National Geographic map of the universe). In fact I’d encourage you to watch one of these first as this will pretty much tell you what I believe most about Jesus and God’s plan to rescue us through His life, death, and resurrection.