“Five of you will chase a hundred and a hundred of you will put ten thousand to flight…” Lev. 26:8

February 26, 2024 - Last week my brother told me about a stray dog that kept getting in his garbage. He said it wasn’t such a problem until other strays began to show up. “The boldness of the first stray became something fierce when he joined with the others.” “Running together, they’d attack about anything… even a new-born calf.” “It’s amazing what dogs can do when they run together,” he said.

“Take heed to thyself…” (I Tim. 4:16)

“I’ll make you fishers of men….” Matthew 4:19

January 15, 2024 - In 1951 as I hitch-hiked back to Seminary in Springfield, Missouri, I stopped in for “chili dog” sandwich in Mena, Arkansas. The sandwich cost me twenty-five cents (the cheapest thing on the menu) and it left me a ten dollar bill in my wallet and some change in my pocket. But when I got back to school and reached for my wallet, it was gone. I had lost it somewhere between Mena and Springfield, so I figured I’d lost it in someone’s car that had picked me up.

“Magi came from the East to Jerusalem….” Matt. 2:11

December 26, 2023 - The Three Wise Men who followed the star to Bethlehem might not have been all that wise…or even men…at least that’s what the Church of England determined at their recent General Synod in London. A committee revising their last Prayer Book says that the word Magi” (translated ‘wise men’) discloses nothing about wisdom or gender”.