“The sun is finally out, the weather is warming up, I’m definitely heading home and putting on my Beach Boy records,” a friend once told me one bright, sun-shiny spring day, back when people still played records. I now know why she was thinking about those good vibrations: We tend to invoke music that parallels …
He was sitting on the front pew, crumpled over in a heap, like one of those college basketball players writhing on the court because his team has just lost a game in the Final Four. Only this young man had not just lost a game. He had lost his mother. She had been killed in …
“I’ll go ahead and take that 50 pound bag of fertilizer,” I told the proprietor at the feed store, after briefly debating the matter in my mind. The fertilizer was my deposit for the promise of spring. It happens every year: From the warmth of my house, I look out my window to the fallow …
If you were to insist that what makes the Bible a special book is not its outward appearance—whether it’s bound in leather or cloth, colored bright pink or plain brown—but what’s inside it—its message, meaning, and purpose, I would heartily agree. But then again, the very presence of the Good Book can not only speak …
John Lennon and Paul McCartney couldn’t have known the danger in the words they wrote with the Beatles first major hit, “I Want to Hold Your Hand.” “And please say to me You’ll let me hold your hand.” In case you haven’t heard, holding and shaking hands can be hazardous to your health. According to the Center for …