It can happen to you most anytime and anyplace; all that’s required is a stuffy auditorium filled with graduates in caps and gowns, a principal or president or superintendant who directs the program with boring predictability, speaks in a monotone voice with a staccato cadence, and of course, a guest speaker, who is prone to …
Daisy: You’re so young. Benjamin Button: Only on the outside. Time is slipping away for Aaron Glascock. It daily slithers through his fingers, snakes unseen through the iron bars that keep Aaron confined, clandestinely floats by the security doors at the Federal prison’s entrance, and happily rises to freedom, leaving Aaron behind, stuck in a …
Pastor Fred Phelps’ God is mad. Phelps’ God is mad at most everyone, except Phelps and his congregation, the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas. According to a press release on their website, GodHatesFags.com, a group from the church was scheduled to picket outside the church I pastor in Lebanon, Ky. But, they travel far …
Some moments— unrehearsed, unexpected, perhaps even unintended, become magical— capturing a feeling, releasing an emotion, finding a destiny, taking on a significance beyond the moment itself. Another Masters Golf Tournament has come and gone, now embedded two weeks in history. But Phil Mickelson’s victory will endure as much as for what he did for his …
“I’ve just seen Jesus,” I whispered as I gazed into his face. No, I was not in a deep meditative trance; I was not half-awake at an Easter sunrise service. I was watching television: the History Channel has produced a wonderfully intriguing program, “The Real Face of Jesus,” a two hour documentary featuring the work …