One of the dominant ideas of our day is the belief that some types of work are more honorable than others. “Honorable” may not be the word everyone uses; it's a bit out of date. How about "important"? I don't think there's any question that...
There’s a whole world out there where our Christian brothers and sisters are living lives closer to the first century church than to ours. They need our help and prayers, but we need their witness and example. One such family wrote to me recently. I’ve changed...
If you were a pretty young woman who, for whatever reason, could only own one pair of shoes, what kind of shoes would they be? Stiletto heels? Sandals? Work boots? A variation of this question, and its relationship to how we really live our lives,...
I live an important part of my life alone but, oddly, often in the presence of other solitary people. Our only common denominator would seem to be that for whatever reason, we live some portion of our lives apart from the rest of society. For...
One of the most common sights in today’s world is people of almost all ages attending to their smartphones or other electronic devices. More common among the young, but not unknown to their parents and grandparents, many live in an almost perpetual state of virtual...
My Dad passed away two months ago, just shy of his 95th birthday. He was an amazing man who lived a remarkable life. He served in the army in World War II and in the air force in the Korean war. He was a physician...