Jim Mulholland-Last Sunday, as Angie and I drove home after worship, we discussed the sermon.  That's not unusual.  I often ask for her feedback.  Even though I've preached hundreds of sermons, I always worry I may not have communicated well.  Last Sunday, I worried that I given some of you the impression that I thought Irvington wasn't an inclusive community.

Philip Gulley-Several months ago, I flew down to Texas to give a talk.  I ate supper on the airplane—a half ounce of pretzels and a cup of water—but was still hungry so ate a few peanuts I'd found in the seat cushions.  It was late by the time I got to the hotel and the restaurant was closed.  I didn't have a car, so I couldn't drive anywhere.  My hotel room had a minibar in it.  I looked in there for something to eat, but it was crazy expensive—six dollars for a package of cheese and crackers.   Five dollar candy bars.   It was outrageous.  They had a lemon scented moist towellete in there for fifty cents.  I thought of buying that and sucking the lemon out. 

Philip Gulley-Back about nine years ago, I got a call one Monday morning around seven o'clock.  It was my mother, phoning to tell me my father had had a heart attack in the middle of the night, that they were at the hospital in Danville, but were getting ready to transfer him in an ambulance up to St. Vincent's.  "But don’t worry," she said.

Jim Mulholland-Several years ago, when Western Yearly Meeting was debating the issue of same sex marriage, one rural Quaker meeting was especially adamant that homosexuality was a sin and homosexuals should not be tolerated in the Society of Friends.  They felt this so strongly they wrote a letter stating their position.

Philip Gulley-When I was about 18, I began operating computers at Duke Energy, then called Public Service Indiana. I did that for five years, making catastrophic mistakes which cost the company millions of dollars before they wised up and put me on the lawn mowing crew. I lacked the proper temperament for working on computers, because I'd discuss theology with my Baptist co-worker, get agitated, hit the wrong button, wiping out thousands of man-hours of work and causing blackouts across the Midwest.