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Old Zechariah hit the jackpot in today’s Gospel reading (Luke 1:5-25). He won the lottery. He got a once in a lifetime opportunity to enter the Holy of Holies where…
Old Zechariah hit the jackpot in today’s Gospel reading (Luke 1:5-25). He won the lottery. He got a once in a lifetime opportunity to enter the Holy of Holies where…
The late Erma Bombeck wrote a thoughtful story before Christmas:Most of us have never seen anyone smile in the Post Office. The Post Office instead is like a clinic for…
In about a week Christmas will be here. As with Advent, it is a time of waiting. Children are waiting for Santa. Christians are waiting for the birth of the…
I did something really stupid this past July. Coming back to the States from a wonderful Danube River cruise, I left my Apple Mac at the security check-point at the…
Many years ago the Prince of Wales visited India. A barrier had been set up to keep back the masses of people who wanted to catch a glimpse of this…
When anesthesia was first used to diminish the pains of childbirth in the late 1840s, the religious leaders (all males) of various denominations objected. Their reasoning -- Eve was told,…
Twenty-nine years ago, on November 9, 1989, a most extraordinary thing happened. The Berlin Wall came down in the revolution that was sweeping communist Eastern Europe. A city and a…
There was a young woman in New York who had been dating a great young man for over two years. One Sunday he called her to say that he had…
Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross is renowned for her work on the Five Stages of Grief and her famous book on death and dying. She interviewed dying patients in the hospital, trying…
For the last 140 years we humans have enjoyed light produced by electric light bulbs. Thomas Edison tried and tried countless times to find the right wire to transmit electricity…