It's been a while since I posted to this blog, but I have some good reasons.

First was a vacation.  After the ESCN Conference in Knoxville TN, my wife and I spent a few days in the Smoky Mountains.  One of our favorite places in Smoky Mountain National Park is Cade's Cove.  Today it's an eleven-mile loop drive with a few cabins, but a hundred years ago, before the federal government bought all the land, it was a community of over a thousand people, served by several churches.  We walked an obscure path and found a l ...