Sometimes I wish we still spoke to one another in Jane Austen English. When was the last time a friend met you on the street and inquired into the health of your parents? (Unless your parents are seriously, ill, of course.) Their conversations were not idle chatter, either. When a gentleman asked about the health of a young [...]

A couple of weeks ago, our good friend John died. He was in his fifties and left behind a wonderful wife and two young children. He was a pillar in our community who literally built most of our town. And we are all in mourning for him. When I was growing up, our church had [...]

I once read that Albert Einstein didn’t know his own phone number. He said it was a waste to crowd his brain by memorizing information that could easily be found in a book. I’m pretty sure that is an urban rumor. But I use it a lot to cover my own ineptitude with numbers. For [...]

This morning I was reading about Moses going back to Egypt to tell old Pharaoh, “Let My people go!” I was struck by one sentence I had never seen before: … when they heard that the Lord was concerned about the sons of Israel and that He had seen their affliction, they bowed low and [...]