By WALTER ALBRITTON I find it helpful to give thanks for old friends who made a difference in my life and now await my arrival in heaven. Thomas...
The Dead Still Speak, Though Not from the Grave
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Walt Albritton Articles
The Influence of One Small Woman
By WALTER ALBRITTON While visiting Methodist mission stations in Southeast Asia, my wife and I worshipped one Sunday at an English-speaking church...
Extending Hospitality to Strangers
By WALTER ALBRITTON It was a strange request from our son Matt. “Dad, our friends Alfred and Muumbe Kalembo from Zambia have no place to go for...
How the Church Grows
By WALTER ALBRITTON Some churches are growing. Some are treading water. And some are dying. Wise pastors want their church to grow. So what is the...
A Thousand Stairways into the Heart
By WALTER ALBRITTON I used to tell a silly story to illustrate a significant truth. It was about a man who, walking home in the dark one night, fell...
Squeeze Every Drop of Joy Out of Now
By WALTER ALBRITTON Henry David Thoreau offered us some good ideas. He insisted we should “live in the present” and “find eternity in each moment.”...
Fixing and Protecting Our Primary Relationships
By WALTER ALBRITTON My good friend Billy Gaither sent me a book recently. It’s not a new book nor an old one but I had not seen it. First published...
An Urgent Plea to My Fellow Citizens of Alabama
By WALTER ALBRITTON As one old citizen of Alabama, I am deeply concerned about the future of our state as it relates to the COVID-19 pandemic. Based...
Drinking the Joy of Deathless Springs
By WALTER ALBRITTON As family and friends gathered with me last Saturday to celebrate my wife’s life, it occurred to me that there can be no...