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You've heard me say this before if you've been reading a while: Being shrewd isn't necessarily the same as being wise. And the reason is an evil man can be shrewd and calculating, but only a good man can be truly wise. Now that doesn't mean that shrewdness is always evil. Far from it. Our Lord…

OK, I'm afraid of closed in places. I think it's called "claustrophobia." The first time I remember discovering this uneasy feeling was when I was a boy and we were playing hide and seek. I found this perfect hiding place in a small cupboard in the kitchen. And it must have been a good spot…

The Centers for Disease Control came out with their 2012 report on Births in the US and they discovered that out of the almost 4 million births in America, over 1,600,000 babies were born in this year to unwed women. You can read the entire report at www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr62/nvsr62_09.pdf While I truly appreciate the old saying that…

Don't you just HATE IT when you're wrong! I mean really, is there anything so frustrating or even embarrassing as having to admit "I was wrong." And yet, there is nothing more character building than being able to say that. Stinks, doesn't it? The very thing my pride fights against is the very thing that is…

One of the famous sayings to come from the tragedy of the Russian Revolution was that "religion" was the opiate of the people. The Communist revolutionaries were convinced that the religion of the Russian people were keeping them slaves to the "ruling class" and they wanted to destroy everything that keeped "the people" down. This…

I failed my first driving test when I went to get my driver's license as a 16 year old. One of the last remaining "rites of passage" into the world as an adult male, and I failed! Talk about embarrassing, the person who had gone with me had passed their test and they had to…

"γνωθι σεαυτον" Know Yourself: with these two words ancient philosophers and Christian theologians have wrestled with a fundamental reality - We humans spend a lot of time either hiding from ourselves or narcissistically focused on a false self. But truly knowing who we really are is fundamental to being who we really are! My bishop is fond…

"You must be born again." Hey, where I'm from, that scripture is as well worn as John 3:16. In the '70's fad of the "Jesus Movement" (anybody who was paying attention at all to the culture of the early '70's knows this) being "born again" was all the rage. Billy Graham wrote a book about…