by Cathy Boyd Byrd | May 6, 2026 | authority, Biblical Counseling, culture, generosity, giving, Teaching
A discipleship student reported attending church and hearing something she called “way off from what I have been taught my whole life.” The message was on tithing. Why do we tithe? My Her answer, she said, is “I want to be obedient to the Lord and what he commands.”...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 15, 2026 | brokenness, change, culture, free speech
2/15/21 CBB ……. speculation is often the same after the fact. Any number of excuses might be applicable. But none of them are a good reason. “We still don’t know why he did it.” Because he’s shown a pattern of sadistic animal torture and killing?Because he’s a...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 4, 2026 | culture, Wisdom
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 3, 2026 | culture
from 1/3/2025….. Remembering President Jimmy Carter Present Jimmy Carter, of Plains, Ga., near where I grew up was described today this way: “summation of the man: “disciplined, funny, enormously intelligent, and deeply spiritual.” Not a bad epitaph. 1/22/25 My...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 13, 2025 | culture, Entertainment, loneliness, woundedness
David Foster Wallace: “In his 1992 essay “E Unibus Pluram,” he calls this a “new vision of the USA as an atomized mass of self-conscious watchers and appearers.” Our Shared Reality Is About to Self-Destruct Instead of participating in a “community of relationships,”...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 28, 2025 | books, change, community, culture, free speech, generations, healing, leadership, religious movements, Spiritual abuse, spiritual growth, Spirituality, Teaching, Uncategorized
“The human condition is not one of problem solving, of wanting to know better in order, then, to do better, but rather, to be human is to not to see that which is right in front of you.” Anne Kennedy, Demotivations, at Substack, on the horror of Nigerian genocide of...
