(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) We enter the season of Advent with many plans for the holidays and many hopes for peaceful get-togethers with relatives we love and those we tolerate. But to paraphrase Scottish…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) England has a new king. It took the death of a queen to make that happen. This proves the fleeting nature of human royalty as expressed in the Book of…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Anyone close to a member of the greatest generation has heard the lecture. How as a child they walked to and from school uphill both ways. How, during the Great…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) We’re well into fall, and the Hero banners that have been hanging from our city’s light poles have been taken down for their ceremonial presentation to the families of the…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) In Christ’s day, tax collectors were to sin what prophets were to virtue. In the succeeding 2000 years, several professions have been added to both sides of that moral balance.…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Zen masters, philosophers and even clergy compare their search for wisdom to a desire for “The Holy Grail.” In fact Parsifal may be one of their heroes. This is the…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) There’s a phenomenon known to science geeks that not only helps us to see movies, but also helps us understand how God wants to view our life stories. It involves…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) A preacher recently encouraged his congregation to adopt a spirit of service. How do you do that? Easy. Discernment. Through discernment, he explained, the Holy Spirit draws us into service…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Power steering is one of the automotive industry’s greatest contributions to global productivity. It made it easier for us beasts of burden to not only carry this world’s heavy loads,…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Movie and TV courtroom dramas involving premeditated murder usually climax with a prosecutor summarizing the defendant’s guilt. It highlights the means, motive and opportunity the suspect had to kill the…