by Leah Davis | Aug 14, 2026 | Opinion
I’ll never forget looking across the plastic purple tablecloths to my then-five-year-old, Lydia, sitting next to one of the saints of our church. Bob, who was about 80 at the time, was helping Lydia string together the beads of an Advent bracelet: two purple beads,...
by Leah Davis | Aug 19, 2025 | Opinion
On a recent Sunday, I confessed to my suburban Washington, D.C. congregation something I had never done before in nearly 20 years of preaching and pastoring: I scrapped the previously written sermon and started over on Saturday night. Sure, I have altered sermons the...
