“Goodness Sakers!”
H.G. Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer of dozens of novels and short stories. Wells wrote an essay on a tribe of people he called the "Goodness Sakers". These were…
H.G. Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer of dozens of novels and short stories. Wells wrote an essay on a tribe of people he called the "Goodness Sakers". These were…
There is a legend that says many years ago an old man stood on a Virginia riverbank. He was waiting to cross the river and, since it was bitterly cold…
Luiqi Tarisio (1796-1854) was found dead one morning with hardly any creature comforts in his home, except the presence of 246 exquisite violins. He was an Italian violin dealer and…
Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it, nothing is possible. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely…
A little boy who was just learning about addition and subtraction in school looked up one Sunday morning during the service at church. He saw the cross sitting on the…
Everyone loves fairy tales. There is just something about a fairy tale's reversal of expectations that intrigues us. There is something delicious about finding out that the frog is really…
All of us know people who get all tangled up in the web of "little things" and thereby miss the "big things." There is the young professional couple with two little children…
Our TV and computer screens have been filled with the images of terrible storms, overwhelming floods, hurricanes, tornados and earthquakes. Jesus talked about this: “Everyone then who hears these words of…
In 1872, at the age of 16, Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) decided he wanted to go to school. He walked 500 miles to Hampton Institute in Virginia, and presented himself…
In his book, All Rivers Run To The Sea, Eli Wiesel (1928-2016) tells of his Jewish family, living in Hungry during the dark days of the WWII. Later, Wiesel along with his parents…