Many years ago I wrote a play entitled “The Lord Is Come!” It was based on Leo Tolstoy’s short story, “Where Love Is, God Is,’ and we performed it at our church. It was an affirmation of the presence of God among us. Two days ago we celebrated the birth of Lord Jesus. Our Creator […]
This photograph was taken during the Christmas season, 2011, and was perhaps the last photograph of Ann, me and our five sons together. 2011 These following two photographs were taken at our Greenway home in 2005. My dear wife Ann knew how to prepare a feast, and there was always plenty of love to go […]
O come, all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant!O come ye, O come ye, to BethlehemCome and behold HimBorn the King of AngelsO come, let us adore HimO come, let us adore HimO come, let us adore HimChrist the Lord! God of God, Light of LightLo, He abhors not the Virgin’s wombVery GodBegotten, not createdO come, […]
I grew up in the 1930s. Those were the hard times of the Great Depression. Of course, I was too young to realize how bad things were; and though people in my community were generally poor, no one was in danger of starvation. My father was a physician, so we were somewhat better off than […]
I have always loved to sing. I never had lessons, do not read music, and I have only average talent. Nevertheless, I really enjoy singing. In the fourth grade I was picked to sing a solo in or school’s Christmas pageant. I belted it out with considerable gusto. I spent the winter of 1939-40 in […]
We are gifted with amazing sounds during the Christmas season. It fills my soul with joy to hear magnificent choruses and carols such as Adeste Fideles, Joy to the World, Silent Night, and other worshipful tributes to the birth of our Savior. We are truly blessed by this wonderful music. Last evening I was particularly […]
Faith vs reason is the third major area of disagreement between progressives and conservatives. This is a generalization, of course, but progressives usually have a negative view of organized religion and are especially hostile towards Christian conservatives. They are offended by the Bible’s stultifying pronouncements on such subjects as sexual morality and family relationships. They […]
This is the second of my two articles about the conservative vs progressive divide. In the first article (Common Ground, Common Good) I discussed the differences in economic philosophies. In this one I write of the differing attitudes about government. In many ways this issue divides conservatives and progressives even more than economics, and it […]
When I peruse a liberal/progressive website, I am amazed by the amount of hateful invective hurled at us conservatives. The same hate is often hurled at progressives on our own websites. I did not realize that we were such bad people. After all, most citizens, conservatives and progressives, want what is the very best for […]
At our family reunion in July this year we distributed a two-page display covering the first two generations of our family. For the benefit of those who could not come to Junaluska, I am attaching a copy of that handout. As introduction, let me explain that our family is a mingling of four different families […]
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