Do you remember the man who saved the world one day? His name was Vasily Arkhipov. It was October of 1962. The Soviet Union was transporting missiles with nuclear warheads to Cuba where they could rea...  Read More

It seems like I end up writing a lot these days. Right now, I have this devotional, a church-wide mailer, a funeral service and a message for Sunday all needing to be finished on my computer. There ar...  Read More

Have you ever been a foreigner? My great-grandparents were immigrants who came through Ellis Island at the end of the 19th century. I got to go to Ellis Island, in New York, and I thought about them s...  Read More

I’m doing a memorial service for a friend of mine who I had not really seen for nearly a quarter of a century. She and her husband moved to Alaska to be with family, and I figured to have one more adv...  Read More

Today is my wife’s birthday. She is 70 as of today. Now I’m older than her but as her birthday approached, I told her that I was wondering what it was going to be like to be married to someone who is ...  Read More

I was reading an article where the author reminded us that one hundred years ago, the best-selling book in our country was a book on phrenology. It said one could discover his or her personality stren...  Read More