I Hold the Bandages and Ointment Ready

Alan Paton’s novel “Cry, the Beloved Country” becomes very personal as it vividly represent the drama of life itself, of love and hate, of fear and greed, and of the power of forgiveness. Set in South Africa, the novel begins with Reverend Stephen...

Mark Twain’s ‘War Prayer’

Mark Twain in March, 1905, was outraged by the American military invasion of the Philippines. So he wrote “The War Prayer” and sent it to “Harper’s Bazaar.” Being a women’s magazine, it was rejected. It wasn’t published until...

Things Can’t Be All Bad When You’ve Got Ice Cream

While our country has problems with illegal immigration, Iraq has the exact opposite worry: legal emigration. According to the New York Times, officials in Baghdad say during the last 10 months, some 1.85 million Iraqis have obtained passports. It is estimated that is...

A Bible Exhibit From China Visits the States

There is an exhibit traveling around some major cities that I wish could have stopped in Texas. It is the Chinese Bible Ministry Exhibition. You did not read that wrong–China publishes the Christian Bible, the same Chinese Bible revered in Taiwan, Singapore and...

Five Major Errors of ‘The Da Vinci Code’

With the movie version of “The Da Vinci Code” opening in theaters, I thought it good to share some factual background and expose some excesses of the story. Nothing in recent history has sold like Dan Brown’s novel The Da Vinci Code. Based on a fable...