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For those who may not have seen yet, international hotel and resort operator Six Senses announced the signing of a management agreement with Whitestone and partner Redrock Portfolio, Inc, for the Six Senses South Carolina Islands.  Central to their plan is the regeneration of the resort assets within the Melrose community.  According to the press… Continue reading Pastor’s Perspective February 29, 2024

There’s an old saying that tells us that we will catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.  While the wooden, literal application of that saying results in dead flies, the practical application for us leads to being more persuasive in our endeavors.  Being sweet can be far more effective than being sour.  That is… Continue reading Pastor’s Perspective February 22, 2024

When I was involved in college athletics, our training contained a significant amount of weightlifting done throughout the year.  As part of that effort, once or twice a year we would have “max day” where the objective was to find out the maximum amount that you could lift in a particular exercise, which would provide… Continue reading Pastor’s Perspective February 15, 2024

In the twelfth chapter of 2 Samuel, King David, king of Israel, is confronted by a prophet named Nathan.  David has had what could most kindly be called an adulterous relationship with Bathsheba, who was the wife of Uriah, one of David’s best and most loyal soldiers.  As if the affair wasn’t bad enough, when… Continue reading Pastor’s Perspective February 8, 2024

We live in a society where we have access to an abundance of material goods, made overseas and shipped here in massive container ships, then sold in warehouse-style stores at low, low prices.  It didn’t used to be that way.  It used to be that we had much more limited access to things, and those… Continue reading Pastor’s Perspective February 1, 2024

When I first started serving our local church on a ministerial level twelve years ago, I pulled back from the local political effort.  I had helped to found the local Daufuskie Island Council, serving as the chairman for the first two years then vice-chairman for the third year (although the chairman resigned and I took… Continue reading Pastor’s Perspective January 25, 2024

This week, a new ferry company took over operations of the public ferry service that so many of our islanders depend upon to access the mainland.  While there are some notable differences from the previous operator, perhaps the most significant difference is the travel time.  The previous operator had a standard plan to idle down… Continue reading Pastor’s Perspective January 18, 2024

One of the things that most annoyed my daughters during their formative years was the frequency with which I asked them the simple, one-word question of “why.”  It didn’t matter if I liked what they had been saying or agreed with them completely.  What was important to me was to know that they had thought… Continue reading Pastor’s Perspective January 11, 2024

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”  With those words, Charles Dickens began his classic historical novel A Tale of Two Cities, and with these words an islander described life here in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew in 2016, as several of us gathered on New Year’s Day, celebrating another… Continue reading Pastor’s Perspective January 4, 2024

As another year draws to a close, it seems wise to spend some time looking back on the events of the past year to what worked well and what worked not so well.  There are memories to savor and cherish, and some to put as far behind us as possible.  There are successes to celebrate,… Continue reading Pastor’s Perspective December 28, 2023