This writer is a member of the AARP - that should tell you something.  We are on the AARP e-mail list.  Yesterday we received an email titled, “Ohg, Find Love On Line.”  We are laughing as we write - the imagery of old people and internet dating was just too much for our sensibilities.  Perhaps [...]

Andy Williams captured me at my eighth grade graduation dance.  I danced with Jerri to the Williams rendition of “Moon River.”  I remember thinking that life could not get any better - and as it turns out - it did not.  All of that aside, Andy Williams came into the lives of millions over the [...]

Woody Allen may be the best writer of parody - probably better than Jon Stewart or Steven Colbert. In this clip he is struggling with understanding lost love. The desperation of compromise, of willingness to assume any posture, struck me as quite similar to the methods of the Hillary Clinton campaign.
Senator Clinton cannot believe that [...]

Dad,
I can remember talking with my roommates about Barack Obama. They are all men of faith that I respect, and they were all impressed with him. Then I saw him on the cover of Sojourner’s magazine. Then I heard a speech from him about serving the poor and oppressed in our society. There has been [...]

Dad,
We have conversations about faith, religions, ad Jesus a lot in this magazine. I thought it might be helpful to look at some of the factors that define healthy faith journeys and get some feedback on what that might look like.
In short, here are 5 things that I think represent a healthy faith:

A healthy faith [...]

Son,
New found love. The blessings of hope for the future. The excitement of finally finding our place in life. We court, we commit, we honeymoon, we love and laugh, then we have to come home and live in the world. We have to make the relationship work. The everyday troubles of relationships, when things are [...]