Don’t be an Easter ass

OUR PASTOR REMINDED me this past weekend, when preaching about Palm Sunday, how odd it was for Jesus to enter Jerusalem on a donkey. Kings usually…

Leaky faith

YOU MAY HAVE heard of the guy who’d run to the front of the church every time there was a revival service, crying out, “Fill me…

Radio lessons in writing

ONE PIECE OF advice I give to would-be writers: listen to the radio. You can learn a lot about using words well from the ads. After…

The things we miss

THE BEST PART of my recent decade-turning birthday was having most of my kids together in the same place for the weekend. Managing to get three…

A bullseye book

THE SAYING goes that everyone has a book in them. What most people don’t know is that there is a second line to that adage: “And…