Like Ralphie in the 1983 classic, A Christmas Story, I’m acquainted with the taste of bar soap. Granted, his was…
Last Saturday, I ran by a cafe where my wife had set me up with a free cup of coffee…
As an Evangelical Opie from a little Baptist college in Arkansas, I entered the philosophy graduate program at Vanderbilt in…
Not long ago, in a coffee shop, I found myself seated beside a genial couple with a Martin Luther biography…
I’ve just watched the movie Bonhoeffer, slated for release this November. Filmed in Ireland and Belgium, it enjoys and features a…
Mississippi’s Michael Cassidy stands charged with fourth-degree criminal mischief for “vandalizing” the Satanic Temple’s display in the Iowa capitol. Well,…
When I watch what’s unfolding in Israel, with Hamas to the southwest and Hezbollah to the north, I think of…
The other day at a friends-of-the library, used-book sale, I picked up a copy of Substitute: Going to School with…
Willie McLaurin and I have something in common: We both have had to step down from leading a Southern Baptist…
Though seventeen years in Chicago made me a Cubs fan, I’ve been a Dodgers follower since 1955, when, as a…
