I AM A MAN

Climbing “Mount Bond” was a challenge that I always lost but never stopped trying to conquer while growing up. The closest I got in my attempts were smoothly ordering a “Coca-Cola, two cherries, no ice” when going out to restaurants, my own underage version of the famous vodka martini… I know, I know, you only wish you could be THAT cool.

Thursday after Ash Wednesday

Return to the Lent calendar. Lent Quotable To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.— Martin Luther…

Busted: Mavis Staples

Lost among the hoopla of the Inauguration of Barack Obama — among the celebrity sightings, the musical guests, and the soaring rhetoric — was the…

A Song Fit For A King

[EDITOR’S NOTE — While MLK Day is celebrated next Monday, January 15 is Dr. King’s birthday. He would have been 80 today. This article was…

The Simple Way

They started out as good Christians. They thumbed through their Bibles, were concerned with sex and feared God. Then they started taking Christianity seriously. “This…

Eternal Matters

A quick glance at the “inspiration” section in any large bookstore is all one needs to determine that books classified as spiritual writing occupy a…