Sister Mary Jo Leddy in her book, Memories of War, Promises of Peace, writes about her parents' World War II experiences.  Her father, Jack Leddy, was a surgeon in the Allied…

Leslie Weatherhead (1893-1976) was an English theologian. In his book Psychology in Service Of The Soul, he tells of a woman who came to him on the verge of a breakdown.  She was…

Here is the entire story I read on the FRONT PAGE of the Florida Sun Sentinel on Saturday, July 24th…… “HAVE HIM DIE SOMEWHERE ELSE!” A lawn care worker tried…

The City of Big Shoulders, a.k.a. Chicago, Illinois, was the last major city to have an "Ugly Law."  It states: "No person who is diseased, maimed, mutilated or in any way deformed so…

The people who hung Jesus on the cross never accused him of being a bore. On the contrary, they thought he was too dynamic to be safe.  It has been…

A father took three ears of corn from the field and handed them to his son."These three ears," he said, "came from the same row of corn. Do you think…

One person gets nothing but discord out of a piano.  Another person gets harmony from the same piano.  No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is about the same.…

In his book titled Whispering the Lyrics, Dr. Tom Long takes us back almost 60 years to our nation’s struggle for racial equality: "During the prime days of the struggle for…

Jesus always met men and women on the level of their need, regardless of who they were or what they had done.  Jesus met everyone as human beings, never as…

In her novel A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley shows readers a highly dysfunctional family which nevertheless attended church each Sunday.  Yet this is how the novel's narrator sums up this religious practice: "We…