One day a father got very upset when he saw his four-year old daughter wasting a roll of expensive wrapping paper.  Money was tight that Christmas and he became angry…

Harriet Richie in The Christian Century has told about an incident in her family's life that revealed to her what Christmas was all about.  Following their church's late night Christmas Eve service, Harriet's…

Some people get annoyed when they see the word 'Xmas' as an abbreviation for 'Christmas' as it seems to take something of the wonder out of the story of Christ…

An old pioneer traveled westward across the Great Plains until he came to an abrupt halt at the edge of the Grand Canyon. He gawked in amazement.  The chasm was…

One of the famous Saturday Evening Post covers showed a woman buying a Thanksgiving turkey.  It appeared on October 3, 1936. Even though it greatly resembles a Norman Rockwell painting, it was…

An elderly farmer and his wife were celebrating fifty years of married life together. Life on a farm can be tough. Commitment is required and you have to be frugal.…

Dom DeLuise was a comedian and actor that many of us enjoyed on TV and in the movies.               He passed away in 2009. For many years Dom DeLuise made many…

The story is told of a science professor who constructed a planetarium, a precisely scaled model of the universe. A student came into his office and asked him who made…

It is impossible to have a moral community or a nation without faith in God.  Without faith in God everything rapidly comes down to "me," and "me" alone is meaningless.  Today…

What is love? It’s silence when your words would hurt.It’s patience when your neighbor’s curt. It’s deafness when the scandal flows.It’s thoughtfulness for another’s woes. It’s promptness when stern duty calls.It’s courage when misfortune falls. Which of the above have defined love…