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Without his parent’s permission, young Jimmy Ward at the ripe age of fourteen, feeling cocky upon entering high school, decided to invite...

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he has given us a new birth into a living hope through the...

My good friend,  I received your comment disagreeing with my statement regarding true men of God and conflict. The statement I wrote, “ I...

“ We must be rooted in the absence of a place. We must take the feeling of home into exile .”   Simone Weil  Growing up, underlying all...

“We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with...

“And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us” (Matthew 6:12).  “For if you forgive men their trespasses,...

Half Harry earned his nickname. Known by everyone in town for half his life, Half Harry never finished anything. No matter what he...

The bell above the doorjamb jingled as Concetta entered the store. Warm air dispensed her shivers. Removing her cap, she shook the...

Underpinning asking and receiving, common with giving thanks, prayer is listening, understanding and submission. Prayer can assert itself...

Curator : “ Sir, we do not sit on the museum’s display chairs.”  Patron: “But, madam, it bid me sit down. Was it not made for this...

Kumph! HaKumph! HaRrrrrummph!   Why am I coughing? Where am I? It’s so dark. And cold.  Dust.  You’re  in your grave. Your cough, though,...

Early in my youth, naïve and uninitiated, I believed in the good of every person. Life has modified and clarified for me my belief lay...

And what are we to make of all this? This, our earthly existence, this, the self upon which life centers and revolves, the glad prism...

S. Beckett Morse muddled along through life, never attending to any serious questions. His only interest was whatever the day offered....

Christmas trees cut from Uncle Allen’s farm, listening to the chorus of “Be good because Santa Claus is coming and have you been a good...

For the real good of every gift is essential first, that the giver be in the gift—as God always is, for He is love—and next, that the...

Convicted during my teen years, tagged as an old man before my time, I rarely made it to midnight on New Year’s Eve. OK. Never. Sleep was...

“ Judge not,  that you be not judged. For with that j udgment you judge , you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be...

He broke it and said, "This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me." In the year of Covid, I miss those four walls...

Summers in Orangeburg were torrid. Situated in a geographic line between Florence, S.C. and Augusta, Ga., the big “O” sits in the middle...