Unsafe Harbors

North Carolina Baptists have trumped Missourians over who can exclude whom. A few weeks ago, the Missouri Baptist Convention dismissed 19 churches from its ranks for not being exclusively (singly) aligned with the Southern Baptist Convention. Meanwhile, the Baptist...

The Da Vinci Sermons

Dan Brown is on trial in a London court for “reworking” ideas from another source and presenting it as his own. The fictional material of his wildly popular novel, The Da Vinci Code, is apparently very similar to the nonfiction book, The Holy Blood and the...

The 52 Hertz Whale

A year ago I read an article in The New York Times that continues to haunt me. I clipped it, as I do with many articles that shed light on the mystery of life. There’s no rhyme or reason to my filing system, so I tossed this one in with all the other orphans....

Dude! Where Do You Like to Surf?

Today, surfing is something all of us do, even if we don’t look good in a swim suit. No sandy blond hair, no surfboard, no sand, no coral to dodge as the wave throws us like a rag doll … we’re surfing the Net! Surfing is what we all do when we hit...

Bearing the Truth, With Respect for All

We have the Oscars for the movies and the Emmys for TV and now we have the Darwin Awards for escapades that can only be described as “truth that’s stranger than fiction.” In short, the Darwin Awards are handed out annually to those who are the least...