When you drop the ball

GIVEN THAT MANY folks greet the New Year with plans to improve their lives one way or another in the coming months, it seems a little…

My last-minute ABBY gift guide

RUSHING AROUND doing some last-minute Christmas shopping and short on ideas? You might find a helpful suggestion or two in my annual ABBYs—the Andy Butcher Best…

Look at who?

THE COUPLE STRUT as though they are walking up the aisle after exchanging their marriage vows, or like they have just won the “Year’s Best” award…

Christmas delight and duty

ALL SIN SEPARATES us from God, but that doesn’t make all sin equal. Some wrongdoing has much greater consequences and implications—for those responsible and for those…

The bigger picture

IT’S IRONIC THAT many of us go through life as though we are the star of the movie, unaware that we may have actually written a…