So here it is, Black Friday. The biggest shopping day of the year. And even with the economy in the worst shape it’s been in in my lifetime, there’ll be millions of people out there hunting for bargains.
I got to thinking about bargains of other kinds and asked God if she could give […]
The end of the year gets a flourish of big holidays here in the United States with one each in October, November and December. That’s Halloween, Thanksgiving, and depending on your perspective, the Solstice, Christmas or Hanukkah.
This coming week is the middle of the three, Thanksgiving, and like all middle children it rarely gets […]
It’s been a week and a half now since Californians passed Proposition 8, voting to take away the right of Gay couples to get married. It really shouldn’t have surprised me, but somehow I had always thought that Californians were better than that.
I’ve been talking it over with God and neither of us is […]
There have been various polls through the years that show Americans have an overwhelming belief in heaven and angels but not so much in hell and demons. God tells me it’s that good old American optimism at work. We see the afterlife as half full.
To a certain extent, I think it just shows […]