The Boston Marathon bombings on Monday remind us that the fight against evil is ongoing. We are, indeed, in an endurance run to protect our freedoms and build a safe world […]

  A Fish Story Have you heard the one about the pastor who confronted a church member one Sunday morning? He said, “George, I heard you were out golfing last Sunday during […]

“With You, Lord, I will flee, that I may gain in You Life in every place. The prison with You is no prison, for in You man goes up into […]

  Now’s the time for mirth and play,Saturday’s an holiday;Praise to heaven unceasing yield,I’ve found a lark’s nest in the field.  Christopher Smart, Hymns for the Amusement of Children  A […]

  Years ago, I discovered a poem by Elizabeth Gardner Reynolds entitled “The Little Black Dog.” The first time I read it, I wept. Being a lover of Jesus Christ […]

    As I prepare to portray Judas on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday at two churches, I am struck again by the King James translation of Matthew 27:3-4: “Then […]

  The parade route begins near the twin towns of Bethpage and Bethany, less than two miles from Jerusalem and winds into the Holy City. The Grand Marshal is an […]

On this day in 1987, a 210-foot barge named the Mobro 4000 began a strange voyage on the seas, searching for a place to dump over 3100 tons of garbage. […]

  Ah, spring! That season when, as the American writer e.e. cummings put it, “the earth laughs in flowers.” Here in the Lone Star State, there are two seasons that I cherish: […]

A Peek into a Famous Parade On this day in 1762, the first St. Patrick’s Day parade was held, but not in Ireland. Irish soldiers stationed in colonial New York City […]