Prior to the 2008 presidential election, I had attended only one political rally. That rally took place during the fall of 1968 when Minnesota’s Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey, running against Republican Richard Nixon, spoke at a high school gymnasium in Lorain. The rally was not well attended, and in my opinion, Humphrey lacked charisma. In […]
When the Lord spoke to Noah, Noah took heed. He built an ark following the Lord’s instructions, which is to say, he used cypress wood to make it 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high. Unlike Bill Cosby’s comedy routine about Noah, he would not have needed to ask the Lord the […]
Talk radio is a format that emphasized talk and discussion instead of music. Over the years, I have been a talk radio listener — mostly NPR — as well as an occasional participant. My first experience as a talk radio participant occurred in the summer of 1958 when I was 10. My boyhood friend Jimmy […]
“No one after lighting a lamp put it under the bushel basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house.” Matthew 5:15 The thing I like about Oberlin High School art teacher Lorna Kretchmar and her art students is that they put their artwork out where it can be seen […]
This is what I told folks in our moment of sharing at church last year. I said that a man, James Naismith, invented basketball, but God invented baseball. It was playoff time for the Cavs, and I was tired of being hyped up. As a matter of fact, I was all hyped out. My son, Peter, […]