Eric Folkerth

I’ve been wanting to create this “How It Started/How It’s Going” picture series for more than a year now. For reasons that weren’t clear in the moment, I felt especially driven to make it happen last week. It…

It happened again, just now. I didn’t mean for it to happen. I just meant to go to the garden to do a little weeding. I wasn’t even thinking about this week’s Gospel lesson, sermons, preaching, teaching…none of that.

In…

Friday night, I went to a prayer vigil, for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, murdered by ICE1 on the streets of Houston last week. I was honored to give a short opening prayer to the evening.

As we arrived, I exchanged…

Ten years ago tonight, our city was rocked with horrific tragedy: Five Dallas Police were brutally murdered by a lone sniper.

The officers were all part of units dispatched to a large and peaceful downtown protest. The subject of…

During Fourth of July week, my sister posted picture of us three Folkerth children as kids that I had been hunting for weeks. It’s a a black and white picture (because Dad was convinced Black and White would last forever…).

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I didn’t watch President Trump’s speech…

Seeing the World Cup through the eyes of fans visiting my city of Dallas has given me far more joy than I expected, and reminded me of deep-level truths about hospitality, strangers, and the true call of the Gospel of…

The SCOTUS ruling on “Birthright Citizenship” came down during today’s Coffee on the Porch. So, you hear my immediate reactions to that.

I also sing my friend Joe Jencks’ song, “Lady of the Harbor,” and my favorite hymn “This Is…

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Two thousand Federal troops.
I keep coming back to that number.

That’s the number of Union soldiers that accompanied General Gordon Granger into Galveston on the day Juneteenth was proclaimed in 1865.

We White people barely understand Juneteenth to begin…

I’ve been meaning to post this pic since two things happened in the very same week.

First, this pic.

This is a screenshot of a video of my old friend, Rev. Daniel Kanter. He’s the lead pastor at First…

The last thing women clergy need right now is a colleague mansplaining why they are important. They can speak for themselves and often do more eloquently than I can.

I am in debt to them.
I am learning from them,…

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Today was our first time back in a month!
So…lot’s to catch up on…

I…

A short snippet from last week’s sermon for our beautiful queer siblings, during Pride Month.
Bless you all…EF

As a preacher and songwriter, I’m always trying to see patterns. I’ve said for years that I’m very good as seeing the forest, not as much with the trees.

Forest-seeing is little understood in our culture today, it seems to…

This week our Horizon Texas Conference of The United Methodist Church met for our yearly gathering in Witchita Falls. But all the while there, my heart was here, in this sober picture from our church’s neighborhood.

This is the site…

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Today’s humbling garden lesson...wildflowers that grow where you don’t plant them.

Last week, I noted the patience that gardening actually takes...and how three Asparagus ferns we own took two years to fully recover from almost dying.

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“It’s hard to plan a vigil for something you don’t want to happen…”

These were some of the emotional opening words from my brother, Hadi Jawad tonight at a vigil to mark the execution of Edward Busby tonight.

Beyond simply…

It takes slow, patient, work to really build true community.
And it’s much easier to destroy than build up.

Take, for example, the hanging baskets on my front porch. This is a picture of our front porch this week. I…