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The God of the Second Chance

“Absalom Greer, the eighty something country evangelist had never pulled punches with the town priest. They had been two respectful equals serving from the common ground of one-God-made-known-through-Jesus-Christ, and having…

Silent Night

Bombs flashed in the dark of the night. Gunshots pierced the air. It was Christmas time, 1914, on the western front in World War I. In the extraordinary opera, “Silent…

Rocka My Soul

Rocka my soul in the bosom of Abraham; Rocka my soul in the bosom of Abraham; Rocka my soul in the bosom of Abraham; Oh, rocka my soul. Dipping and…

On the Wings of the Dove

Birds! Captain Chesley Sullenberger saw the birds before US Airways flight 1549 hit them in the air on January 15, 2009, blowing out both engines of his aircraft. Clint Eastwood’s…

Granny’s Ring

When my brother was in high school, he belonged to Key Club, an affiliate of Kiwanis. A man in our hometown encouraged Mark to run for the statewide office of…

Cradled in the arms of God

In John Grisham’s book The Pelican Brief, protagonist Darby Shaw is in law school, number two in her class. Due to events that take place in the book, she had to…