“I just want to say that I love Allah.” These aren’t the words of one devotee of Islam peacefully whispering to a fellow follower during a quiet moment of worship. Instead it is a statement made by Amine el Khalifi—formerly Christopher Lee Cornell, an unemployed deejay—to the judge at his sentencing of 30 years in prison after pleading …
Lori and I were putting up groceries while our two year old grandson, Eli, was making himself at home, sitting there cross legged on the kitchen cabinet, chomping on a cookie. He reached for a frozen pizza I had set next to him. “You can’t have that, Eli,” I smiled. “It’s frozen.” At the word, …
Two days after Christmas I surprised my wife with a post-Christmas present. It had been somewhat of a blue Christmas for her, and I thought my gift would help. So I gave her a rope. “A what?” you incredulously ask. “A rope? Really?” Maybe you’re thinking my gift ranks right up there with Barney Fife …
Twas the night before Christmas… …and nothing happened, at least not much out of the ordinary. The inn in tiny little Bethlehem had no vacancies, and people without a place to stay were surely aggravated with the inn keeper. Nothing unusual about that. Other citizens were likely agitated with all the extra traffic, all those …
“I don’t think he’s going to make it through the ceremony,” my daughter Madi predicted of her two year old son, Eli. We were standing in the foyer of Ransdell Chapel for Madi’s Pinning Ceremony. She was graduating from Campbellsville University’s School of Nursing. I was already proud of Madi and wanted to be there …