Rockwall, TX (November 28, 2025) – A high-rise collapse after an earthquake across the globe is disconcerting news. But my young adult children wouldn’t know about it unless I happened to mention it. They’re concerned with their jobs and growing families, perhaps wisely bypassing news of world events that gain their parents’ attention. Broadcasters often […]
Rockwall, TX (October 22, 2025) – A would-be archeologist descended into an Egyptian mummy pit by candlelight. The stacked remains of shriveled 3,500-year-old bodies filled a long passageway. Suddenly, the pit collapsed under his weight, and he landed in piles of bones and rotted linen wrappings, choking in mummy dust. That was in the early […]
Rockwall, TX (September 24, 2025) – Elsie recently joined the weekly Bible study group I attend. Her longer, foreign name is harder to say. She’s lived in the US for a dozen or so years and speaks nearly perfect English—especially for those familiar with a South African accent. I enjoy listening to Elsie, especially her […]
Rockwall, TX (August 15, 2025) – Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning. That old saying predicted bad weather in the days before reliable forecasting. Whereas blue skies suggested—rightly or wrongly—that all is clear ahead. Faith in God can rely on faulty assumptions also. When all is well with us, we feel blessed from […]
Rockwall, TX (June 29, 2025) – All boom and no doom. Americans love fireworks—the sounds of war without its destruction. We delight in patriotic events that, for most of us, require no national duty. Patriotism is defined by love for one’s country, best displayed by courage and self-sacrifice during times of threat. On the unpretty […]
Rockwall, TX (May 15, 2025) – Do high-school students still suffer the required reading of books written hundreds of years ago? As a teenager, I had little interest in an assignment to read Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. But I became hooked and read more of his plays, which kept me up past midnight—unable to […]
Rockwall, TX (March 5, 2025) – A certain Sunday delivered a perfect spring morning to central Kansas. A young man stood on his porch and noticed the swollen buds on an elm tree. His wife, meanwhile, peered into her bedroom closet. Pregnant with their first child, she easily chose one of the few dresses she […]
Rockwall, TX (February 6, 2025) – Love is “a many-splendored thing,” according to an old book/song/movie title. Those who have fallen in love will agree. But there is one facet of love that makes a person ill: lovesickness. This could be due to distance, or a break-up, or else that northern exposure side of love […]
Adobe stock library Rockwall, TX (November 29, 2024) – An old monk’s dying testimony surely surprised those who revered him for his great humility and service to all those around him. The Elder Zosima revealed his past sins of jealousy, anger, and hatred that nearly led to murder. Though he had grown up inspired by […]
Rockwall, TX (October 23, 2024) – The dark and musty garage laundry room with one small window that allowed a bit of moonlight provided a perfect atmosphere for our small group of neighborhood kids to meet. We sat in a circle as the older ones told ghost stories that made us shiver with excitement or […]