One of the advantages of the digital audiobook or E-reader is that they cannot have pages disappear on you. I am one of those people who still prefer to feel the book in my hand when I am reading. There is nothing more frustrating than reading a book only to find the last page or […]

How many times have you said the wrong thing at the wrong time and then wish the floor would open up and swallow you as you realize with embarrassment the mistake you have made. Listening again to the almost 20-minute monologue of Michelle Wolf at this year’s Washington Correspondents Dinner I found myself wondering how […]

Carolyn and I are almost at the end of our vacation which we both needed after the journey through Lent and the joys of Easter Sunday. The long flight, (22 hours) brought us first to Singapore for a few days then a further two and half hours in the air, and we arrived in Bangkok. […]

Lower taxes, cheaper gas prices, more investment in schools and education, better transport systems, higher pensions, stricter measures on crime, cleaner environment, more jobs….. We have heard it all before, haven’t we? The words trotted out by those running for elected office, whether President of the United States or some county, city, state or federal […]

As we read through the passage set out in our Lenten studies book this week, we encounter a familiar parable. Have you ever lent your car to someone? You know that anxious feeling when he or she drives off into city traffic with your baby? In the Gospel parable today, a “man going on a […]

Have you ever had one of those moments in which you ask yourself, “What on earth am I doing here? Why am I in this place at this time? It may be a work related situation where you think this is not what I thought my day might hold! Or you set off planning to […]

“Fake News! It’s all Fake News,” comes the reply to another barrage of questions by journalists eager for an answer to the story of the day. Whether ‘Fake News,’ as an answer, is simply being given in an attempt to deflect the media interrogation of a particular issue in the headlines, or it’s genuinely something […]

In our Lenten reading set for today we have Matthew bringing a warning about people who claim to speak for God when they are clearly not called by God to do so, what Matthew calls false, or perhaps toady we could say, fake prophets! What does it mean to call Jesus ‘Lord’? On the one […]

Do you recall the movie “The Jerk” starring Steve Martin. There is a scene in the movie when Steve Martin’s character is arguing with Bernadette Peter’s character and he threatening to leave. As he goes, he makes the statement that he doesn’t need anything…he is only going to take the ashtray, and then the paddle […]

George Bradt published an article with Forbes Magazine in April of 2013 entitled, “Practice What You Preach or Pay the Price.” He said, “They won’t believe what you say. They will believe what you do.” He went on to say that even if what you say matches what you do, but doesn’t align with your […]