Bless Your Heart

Bless Your Heart

 “Well, bless your heart.” What a wonderful thing to hear.  Someone wants to impart a blessing upon your inmost being.  But before you begin to savor that inward rush of joy and gratitude, it’s just possible that those words mean something else.  “Bless your heart” –...
Bring the Light

Bring the Light

Right now, according to the Doomsday Clock, we’re just 100 seconds from Armageddon.    A group of researchers established The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 1947 to help alert humanity to the perils of atomic age weaponry.  Very few people paid attention until...
That’s Easy: It’s Grace

That’s Easy: It’s Grace

 Across the spectrum of global spirituality, is there anything unique to the Christian faith? Those attending a British conference on comparative religions in the middle of the last century debated that very question.  When all is said and done, is there anything...
The One Who Saves Us

The One Who Saves Us

Dee Dee Kuruneru pointed to the grayish line permanently imprinted eight feet up the wall of his nearly demolished seaside house.  “That’s how high the water was,” he said.  “It stayed there for ten minutes.”  That extraordinary watermark was the legacy of the tsunami...
A Chance to Vote

A Chance to Vote

 Zachary Taylor never voted in a U.S. presidential election until he was 64 years old. That’s when the career military officer cast a ballot for himself in the 1848 election that sent him to the White House as America’s 12th chief executive.  But the record for a...