The Pope resigns, a revision of history wins the Oscar, an asteroid misses earth, and a meteorite doesn’t. There was so much to write about while I was gone.Have you ever noticed how—when a natural disaster happens—it is an act of God, but when a natural disaster is averted it’s a happy coincidence? When the…
Rebuilding Your Altar
They couldn’t believe their eyes. The altar had been torn down! The altar, the very core of their spiritual life and spiritual heritage and now it was just rubble. They had never actually seen the Temple or the altar it housed themselves, but they had heard the stories and their parents and grandparents delighted in…
Missed it.
It happened on my way back from Ghana. It was the second to the last leg of our journey home and we had been in the air about four hours. I was deeply engrossed in a movie and for no apparent reason I opened the window shade, and I was stunned. There was the most…
Lydia’s Journey
She was a successful business woman, actually she was a successful business owner and that was virtually unheard of in the time and society she lived in. Remember this was 2000 years ago in a culture that was slightly male centered; actually it was very male centered. Females weren’t exactly chattel but they weren’t exactly…