Faith of our Fathers

At a recent teachers conference, I spent my days at an old Christian retreat center. Someone told me that this “used to be” a Christian center, just like I’ve seen old church building that “used to be” places of worship, but the many dwindled to the few and now the…

Read more

Spiders and snakes

Jim Stafford had a song many years ago called Spiders and Snakes. One line in the song went like this…”I don’t like spiders and snakes and that aint what it takes to love me.” I just never could figure out why anyone would put the word “love” in the same…

Read more


No room for improvement

Yesterday I was thinking about how much the world has changed since I was a child. I remember when my mother got her first microwave. And how excited my brother and I were when we got “Pong” for the television. And how much I loved the portable 8-track player I…

Read more