Officially, the New Testament church at an early stage took seriously their responsibility for widows who lacked family or other resources. The office of deacon was instituted initially to address this pressing need.

After this is over, I want a shower in a really big bathroom.””I’ll get us the penthouse.””What makes you think you’ll be sharing it with me?””I live in hope.

Just so you know, I get incredibly bored quite easily and you will be forced to be my source of entertainment. You’ll kind of be like my own personal jester.”I flipped him off.”Well that wasn’t...

Wasn’t that a season finale on Supernatural?’ When the boys nodded, my eyes rolled.’Seriously? Are Sam and Dean going to be there?

My ‘morals’ were sound, even a bit puritanic, but when a hidebound old deacon inveighed against dancing I rebelled. By the time of graduation I was still a ‘believer’ in orthodox religion, but had strong...

Truth is, I don’t know what Deacon wants anymore – it’s not just physical. Whatever it is must scare him, though, and I’m the one who ends up getting hurt. So I make the concerted...

I am not an ‘elder’, ‘deacon’, nor a ‘pastor’, and I do not have any ambitions to become one!”.~R. Alan Woods {2012]