Big hearts, big help — and good news

Yesterday, my compadre John Pierce devoted his blog to exploring the legitimate question of whether disaster relief is still news. I don’t know if we’ve had a lot more disasters lately, or if there’s more relief work going on — but there has...

Little problems … and big ones

This past weekend was something of a vacation for my family, if you count attending two meetings and making four presentations as vacation. Jan and I both had the opportunity to speak at the Three Forks Baptist Association’s fall Woman’s Missionary Union...

Of pig lips and dog marks

I continue to be amazed at the gall of the Palin-McCain political strategists as they try to get more mileage out of Barack Obama’s remark about putting lipstick on a pig.That expression is probably as old as lipstick itself. I used it several years ago when...

Pastors urged to violate ban

If my last post suggested a belief that there are too many lawyers putting their noses where they don’t belong, a Sept. 8 article in the Washington Post trumps my traffic court issue in spades.The right wing Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) is urging pastors to...

Too much information

Every now and then, when someone starts describing their latest marital spat or gastrointestinal illness in more detail than others want to hear, it’s likely that someone might remark “T M I!”Too Much Information.Sometimes I think there’s too...