Brief Reflections on Christmas

In an effort to write more, I am going to try something a little different and occasionally post collections of brief thoughts gathered in something approaching a theme, instead of waiting until the inspiration for some thousand word topic strikes. With Christmas upon...

Christmas at The Hardware: An Advent Shopping Parable

This happened somewhere west of Boston and east of San Francisco, in one of those little towns that dresses up the week before Thanksgiving and stays in holiday finery until mid-January. The local hardware store sat on the corner of the courthouse square, watched over...

Billy Graham: An Appreciation

On November 7, 1918 on a dairy farm near Charlotte, North Carolina, a baby was born. William Franklin Graham, Jr., better known as Billy, would be known from an early age for his powerful voice, a voice that found its purpose as a preacher of the Gospel. A preacher...