Nunuku’s Law
This year on Martin Luther King Junior Day I found myself on a small island few people ever visit, a place I never imagined I’d ever go. But given the day, there’s no place I would rather have been. 500 miles east of the South Island of New Zealand, Chatham Island—a third of the…
Christmas: What Matters Most?
Christmas: What Matters Most? One of my older brothers—all of four or five years old at the time—had little money to buy Dad a Christmas gift. So he scratched together the few cents he could find and bought something he was sure Dad would like, wrapped it and put it under the Christmas tree. My father…
Donald Trump, Fury, and Opinion
Photo by Michael Vadon One expects that during an election campaign promises will be made and statements uttered that challenge one’s patience and stretch the bounds of credulity. During the current election primaries one candidate in particular has made a number of statements that have upset a lot of people. One statement in particular…
Happy Thanksgiving
A friend’s daughter died a couple of days ago. She was eight years old. We’ve been praying at the office lately for a little girl with brain cancer, and recently for another little girl—an infant—who has a particularly rare, aggressive cancer that one might expect would take her life. Terrorists have orchestrated mass killings recently…
Reformation Day
In the United States, October 31 means essentially one thing: Halloween. People dress up in costumes, children go trick or treating, and the fake cobwebs, carved pumpkins and plastic backyard tombstones will soon be put away until next year. Halloween might just be the devil’s favorite day of the year as death, demons, zombies, and witches are…
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