Gun Violence’s Death Toll Eclipses Ebola’s in U.S.

The media has been inundated with news – and fears – about Ebola for many weeks now. That disease is certainly a frightful one, and every effort should be made to keep it from spreading. Unfortunately, it is still spreading in West Africa, and additional efforts are...

Getting Your Planetary House in Order

My wife and I recently purchased a home in Henderson, Kentucky, and we are still very much in the process of getting the house in order. Lots of boxes wait to be unpacked. Each day, we struggle to remember where certain things are. We are constantly being reminded...

Will we ever be “postwar”?

A weekend engagement at First Baptist of Manchester, Georgia provided an opportunity to revisit Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “Little White House” in Warm Springs, which he visited often. He was working on a speech promoting the formation of the United...

Puzzling Advice Offered by the Apostle Paul

I was invited recently to participate in a discussion at church focused on an interesting question: Why did Paul say that? This prompted some thinking about the Apostle Paul’s puzzling and sometimes controversial words of counsel to early Christian communities....