Author Archives: Drexel Rayford

About Drexel Rayford

Drexel has been senior pastor of four churches in Kentucky and Virginia, a psychiatric ward chaplain, denominational bureaucrat, and an erstwhile indie singer/songwriter/story-teller and seeker of authentic human vocation. Currently, Drexel is working at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical Center in the capacity of The Support Team Network manager, a hospital-based community partnership aimed at nurturing healing communities for discharged patients. He loves kayaking, road cycling, hiking, and all kinds of photography, but he loves his wife Vicki and blended family of three adult children more. He holds a Ph.D. in the Psychology of Religion and a pastoral counseling certificate from the University of Louisville, Department of Psychiatry.

Moon Over Salzburg – On Spirituality and Coincidence

Posted on April 27, 2015 by Drexel Rayford

The last time I was single, I lived for a couple of years in Salzburg, Austria. I love that city and I’ve made a number of return trips over the years since 1978, the last year of my more-or-less permanent … Continue reading →

Posted in God's Language, Insight, Loneliness, The Nature of Prayer | Tagged , , , | 6 Comments

Where is God in the Loneliness?

Posted on March 11, 2015 by Drexel Rayford

I’ve actually put off writing this particular post because, to be honest, I’ve grown increasingly reluctant to say that God does this or God does that, or point at an occurrence and say, “Look what God did!” Over the course … Continue reading →

Posted in Divorce, God's Language, Insight, Loneliness, Spiritual Maturity, Wisdom | Tagged , , | 2 Comments