A friend and I decided to meet up for lunch on our college campus one day. I could hardly wait. I was bursting at the seams with an overwhelming eagerness to share some information about a mutual colleague. Mind you, it was the type of information I would not dare share if the person about whom I was speaking was present. I’m pretty sure Webster would define this as gossip. Nevertheless, they were not present and I just had to tell somebody what I had come to know! We sat down, got our food, Continue Reading
Where is the Hope?
Confession: I oftentimes roll my eyes when I hear people from previous generations go on and on and on about “the good ol’ days.” I just read Judges chapter 19. This grotesque series of events involving a Levite and his concubine have me convinced the “good ol’ days” must have started after 1000 BC, when these passages were recorded, and ended in 1981, the year I was born. For “in those days Israel had no king; [and much like today] everyone did as they saw fit” (Judges 21:25). Talk about Continue Reading
Let’s Glide
My daughter recently went on a field trip with her kindergarten class to a butterfly exhibit at The Museum of Natural Science. She came back and shared an interesting fact, which has resonated with me ever since. She learned that monarch butterflies take advantage of the updrafts of warm air, called “thermals” and glide as they migrate from the United States and Canada to Florida and Mexico. This allows them to preserve the energy required for flapping their wings all through a long 2500-mile Continue Reading