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A mother, taking her youngest to college, talks about it and recounts the story of another child's parting from his mother : ...her son...

It seems that much of the media is intent on portraying Pope Benedict XVI as an intolerant religionist. Presbyterian pastor and scholar Mark...

Today, while driving from a hospital to my office, I listened to the Diane Rehm Show , hosted this week by Susan Page. Page interviewed the ...

[ Tuesdays with Markie is a weekly Bible study I convene for our congregation. Currently, we're studying the Old Testament book of Gene...

In 1971, a group of my high school English classmates and I attended a performance of William Shakespeare's Othello on the campus of Ot...

Pras, rapping member of The Fugees who already successfully flew solo back in 1998 with his Ghetto Superstar LP, has created a fabulous ne...

The push pin board at paulmccartney.com is getting fuller. Just added is a video for the first single, Fine Line , from his new LP, Chaos a...

In the wake of yesterday's California Supreme Court rulings on three cases involving lesbian couples and parenting, some identified as ...

Hugo Chavez is a bad man. But ruminating on the advantages of his extermination, as Pat Robertson did, is not only questionable theology fro...

Within a twenty-four hour period, two different elderly women for whom my congregation and I have been praying have died. One is Verna, the ...

Matthew 10 I was originally going to call this installment of the series, Marching Orders . But that really isn't an accurate reflection...

Romans 12:1-8 (Shared with the people of Friendship Church, August 21, 2005) Today, I want to ask you to consider taking two goals for your ...

My wife and I just returned from her thirty-fifth high school class reunion. I always enjoy these get-togethers because we graduated from th...

I've been a student of Abraham Lincoln since I was four years old. Here are my four favorite Lincoln books: 1. Lincoln : David Herbert D...

I mentioned the Springfield home of poet Vachel Lindsay . The Lindsay poem with which I'm most familiar, Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnig...

There are other things to do and see in Springfield, many of which will bring Lincoln's life and times vividly home for the visitor. The...

The museum at the brand-new Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois is a fantastic place. It is the best m...

Matthew 9 In chapter 9, Jesus performs more signs pointing to His identity as Messiah and God-enfleshed. By His lavish spreading of God'...

Andy Rooney has made a career--a third career, by my count--of often stringing together unrelated observations in his 60 Minutes essays. ...

Tamar quotes an email received from a friend in Israel on the Gaza pullout . In a nutshell, she's impressed with the gentle yet firm man...