Sunday was William Isaac’s fourth birthday. He grinned and hid his face when we sang “Happy Birthday” to him, blew out the candles on his massive cake, and worked himself into a sugar high before bouncing about the living room. He opened presents with the advice of his older brothers (“No, that one next; it’s …
From Arthur McGill’s Suffering: “In the Christian world today almost no one talks about God himself. Christians are preoccupied instead either with God’s acts — with the things that he gives us and the moral demands he makes on us, with Jesus whom he sent and the church that he created — or with the …
For those of you who lack the advanced financial expertise necessary to decipher news surrounding the current mess, I’ve interviewed an expert to help us make sense of the headlines. Q: How did we get into this mess? A: Two entities created and overseen by Congress, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, flooded the mortgage market …
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At the gym I passed a room where a little pony-tailed lady was teaching women how to throw a ridiculously ineffective roundhouse kick. I haven’t kept up with the fusion of martial arts, aerobics, and conga line dancing that infests late-night advertising, but apparently it has spread to at least one gym in Kansas. I suppose it’s …
I’m happy to report that we fared better than the poor people in Galveston. At one point our house was entirely surrounded by water, some of it rushing quite fiercely. But we weathered the weather, and soon we’ll be able to search our back acres for the play equipment that was swept away in the …
This from the National Weather Service: SEVERAL RIVERS ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS COULD SEE RAPID RISES AND FLOODING BY SATURDAY MORNING. CREEKS AND SMALL STREAMS MAY ALSO FLOOD FROM THE HEAVY RAINFALL. Did I mention that a tributary of the Arkansas River runs, oh, about thirty yards behind our house? Used to, anyway. …
We’re speeding through Wichita along I-135, a long elevated stretch of highway. Caleb is not talking, which means he is getting ready to talk. “This highway has lots of legs under it, doesn’t it Dad?” “Yeah, to keep it from falling.” “It’s like we’re driving on a giant centipede.” And suddenly the highway looked just …
What can be said that has not already been spoken of this day when 3,226 people were killed or wounded by Islamic terrorists on U.S. soil? Being people, many of these poor souls were probably very good, and some very bad. Some behaved heroically, perhaps for the only time in their lives cut short. Some …
I went to work late Tuesday because Eli found me early in the morning and asked me to play outside with him. If I have a neglected child it is Eli, who is quiet, and who therefore rarely gets a word in edgewise between his older brother’s soliloquies and the shouting/squealing/caterwauling that his younger brothers …
You’ve likely heard by now of the natural disaster that recently threatened Wilmington, N.C. No, I’m not talking about hurricanes, but something more deadly: inability to receive television signals. As a test market for the coming national switch to digital television, Wilmington was the subject of intensive assistance by federal, state, and local officials. God …
Isaac took a tumble down some of the basement steps last week. We did the usual check for broken bones, blood, and equal and reactive pupils. All those checks proved negative, so we applied the boo-boo bunny. Isaac seemed out of sorts, though, and so we kept an eye on him. A couple of hours later, …
I confess I don’t know exactly what all those early-morning shoppers in my local grocery wanted to hear coming over the store’s loudspeakers, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t Aerosmith’s vulgar rendition of “Come Together.” I can’t quite put my finger on it, but there’s something wrong with how we allow ourselves to be regularly assailed …
“The world seems full of good men — even if there are monsters in it.” – Mina Harker’s Journal (Dracula)
