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It’s said to be the third most performed Christmas song each year, and if you listen to one of those Christmas music stations on the radio, you’ll believe it.  Because everybody and their dog has sung the song, from Frank … Continue reading →

Dressed in an outfit overflowing with pink and white roses, she’s definitely the picture of a perfectly English baby. But despite her fair skin and blue–or at least we think they will be–twinkling eyes, our newest grandchild, Talitha, is unmistakably … Continue reading →

It was definitely not what she expected to discover that night. For when Angie finally managed to get her 21-month old down for the night—a clear victory in their house—she finished tidying up the kitchen and was thinking she might … Continue reading →

I think of it every year about this time, especially when October comes around and we’re still looking at warm temperatures here in Texas.  For spending three years in New England during seminary, I was always struck by the beauty … Continue reading →

It’s said that the idea goes all the way back to the twelfth century, and later on, it even shows up in the classic tale of Don Quixote, though Cervantes substituted “goat” for “sheep” in his account. Likewise, thanks to … Continue reading →

It happened almost forty years ago, somewhere between Massachusetts and Texas. For when we left Boston, headed back home to take our first pastoral appointment, I had been told that we were being posted to the town of Waller, a … Continue reading →

It’s been thirty-seven years since it first came out but I remember it as though it were yesterday.  For the moment the movie began, like a tractor beam pulling in the Millenium Falcon, I was drawn into the imagery, the … Continue reading →

They haunt me and they hurt me each time that I read them. For even while I know all about their setting and their original application–as a plaintive lament over the ruined conditions of Jerusalem following its destruction in 586 … Continue reading →

You never know how those preacher’s kids will turn out, especially when their father is not only a deacon in the church, but a respected judge in the community.  So when at the age of just barely sixteen, a boy … Continue reading →