This morning’s News Flash: Bombing terrorist entombed in undisclosed location!  Two weeks ago if we could have peered into the future and seen this headline we would likely have concluded it was a slow news day. On week ago a longtime friend called to tell me about the bitter controversy then raging about where and whether [...]

We’re all familiar with the concept of “collateral damage.”  In a military operation there may be unintended destruction resulting in injury and death, even of the innocent, even in a day when laser technology allows for greater precision in the use of weapons with massive destructive potential.  In some circles, leaders expect a certain amount [...]

I remember often thinking to myself, “how could anyone with even an ounce of decency, let alone the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, seriously support slavery?”  I asked myself that question after watching the celebrated Roots miniseries years ago.  I asked myself that question when I read or heard about the heinous Apartheid system [...]

I enjoy the” hinge” connecting the old and new year.  For a couple weeks we commonly look back to recall the most memorable or important or funny or stupid things that happened in the year past.  Likewise, we anticipate the things we will do in the New Year—both the things we vow not to do [...]

16 When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi.  17 Then what was said through the prophet [...]