Congratulations, graduates! I’d like to share with you my favorite graduation/choosing a life’s work quote from Frederick Buechner. What makes you glad? The voice we should listen to most as we choose a vocation is the voice that we might think we should listen to least, and that is the voice of our own gladness.  […]

Part Two from an article I wrote this week for my local paper. Scroll down to read about St. Valentine in Part One: Suffering for Love. Followers of Christ around the globe still suffer and die for their faith, even in our so-called civilized age. Why do they willingly, even fearlessly, suffer? They do it for […]

The following is from an article I wrote this week for my local paper. Since the word length is 600 and blogs should never be more than 300 (a fact most bloggers sadly ignore), I have split it into two installments. This week, Americans will spend roughly 14 billion dollars on Valentine’s Day. The average […]

We should be outraged. Thanksgiving, the best and most uniquely American holiday, is being squeezed out, gobbled up by the growing commercialism of Halloween and Christmas. As soon as Labor Day sales were finished, stores put out Halloween costumes and even Christmas decorations. Trick-or-treat candy still fills the desktop canisters in my office while radio […]

  I’m excited about Halloween. However, I’m tired of being bombarded by candy everywhere for a month or more. And I’m bothered by our society’s fascination with vampires and the occult. And I don’t like it that Halloween is now second to Christmas, way beyond Easter in most Americans’ minds. So maybe it’s not Halloween […]