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May 11, 2025

For the gospel to be heard

The church and its message exist today in a world flooded with noise and distractions that vie for attention. The world is inundated with competing and contradictory solutions to the problems we face. In the words of poet William Alexander Percy, “Too much is said too loudly; I am dazed. / The silken sound of Continue reading

Ruminations

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February 23, 2025

On the other side of despair

“Sometime it’s purty hard to do the right thing,” an old philosopher once said. “You don’t always know what’s gonna come of it.” Bits of folk wisdom like that, from cartoonist J.P. Alley, used to appear most days alongside the news in the Memphis Commercial Appeal. From 1914 to 1968 they provided a humanizing balance Continue reading

Ruminations

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October 9, 2024

The top eight ways to hear God

I’ve often wanted to have a conversation with my twenty-something-year-old self, to share some wisdom from this end of my lifespan and to offer guidance to make his life not necessarily easier but more fulfilling. Some things I’d share, my younger self could never imagine. So I wonder about the wisdom I cannot imagine today Continue reading

Ruminations

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April 30, 2023

The abundant life

Several weeks ago I asked you three questions: what is your greatest need, what is your greatest hope, and what is your most urgent question? Last weekend the Church Council sifted through those responses and found they contained several common themes, themes that will help inspire and guide our ministries at Holy Trinity. Soon you’ll Continue reading

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About Me

Rich Neal is, in no particular order, a wordsmith and graphic designer; lover of typography, books, and publishing; photographer; contemplative; saunterer; and a retired and still-active pastor. He claims neither special wisdom nor particularly deep insight into life, only occasional glimpses of what lies behind the veil along the way. He shares them here in the hope of connecting the pieces of life’s puzzle that come to him in the journey and would consider it a gift if sharing them also connected him with others who travel an unmarked path toward the same unknown end.

wisdom

For the gospel to be heard

On the other side of despair

The top eight ways to hear God

The abundant life