Stories

There and Back Again: A Congregation’s Tale Many of you know that I very much enjoy J.R.R. Tolkien’s stories of Middle-earth. (One of my tattoos can attest to this!)  These include The Lord of the Rings and other stories, but they began with the children’s classic The Hobbit, where a hobbit named Bilbo Baggins takes an unexpected journey full of adventure, and his whole life is changed. In the story, Bilbo writes his adventures in his memoirs and titles them,…