I really don't know where it came from, but since I can remember, there were two great interests in my mind - politics and religion. Strange, since my traditional Southern…
I was sitting right next to it! And then it went off! And I nearly jumped out of my skin. It was an alarm that let you know when someone…
I will never forget his face. You see, this man was asking me about giving to his church. He was absolutely amazed that his pastor had preached a sermon on…
"They say hindsight's 20/20." Yep, that's what they say. I don't know anyone who, if they could and knowing what they know now, wouldn't jump into a time machine and…
"Don't judge me!" That's the cry of modern man in a modern society that has come to see every desire as a right, and every pleasure as a perfectly normal…
"Free advice is worth every penny you pay for it!" With that, the old man proceeded to share with me some pearls of wisdom that I remember to this day.
Isn't…
There's one sure way for any politician to get an applause line in a stump speech. All he or she has to do is say "I support our troops!" And…
It's just such a part of our common world today! There are people who believe they are killing other people for God. In fact, when a member of ISIS (that…
It's a paradox. Paradox is a concept that we humans, especially we humans shaped and formed by a post-Enlightenment secularism, have a hard time grasping. Paradox makes us uncomfortable. It…
St. John Chrysostom called the faithful "reason endowed sheep." Not having a lot of experience with sheep being raised in the rural American South (Now ask me about pigs, cows,…