Boethius was a Christian in ancient Rome and a polymath, which means he studied lots of things. He adhered to Arian Christianity, considered o…
People can be divided into two groups — those who take things for granted and those who take things with gratitude. The greater the person, th…
Each year, new players are inducted into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, and into the National Football Leagu…
An ancient tradition, did you know, puts Zacchaeus in the bishop’s seat in an area once known as Caesarea? Or that a medieval legend has him a…
A group of folks were talking about a mutual friend who lived in a distant city. One of them remembered that it was the friend’s birthday, so …
A famous preacher was teaching a seminary class on the parables of Jesus and noticed that all of his students seemed to prefer the ones with t…
A young man knocked on the door of a monastery with a large duck in his arms. His uncle, who happened to be one of the monks in the monastery,…
One of the more popular pieces of theology in the world is that you and I and everybody else are sunk because, a long, long time ago, two peop…
When I was a boy, on most Saturdays we went from Plainview, Louisiana to Many, Louisiana to shop. For me, the highlight of the day was going t…
Every time I find unexpected tears in my eyes, I count it as a religious experience. That’s why “Inside Out 2” qualifies as one of the most re…
The Tenn-Tom Waterway makes shipping possible from the Gulf of Mexico all the way to the Tennessee River and beyond. One of the things needed …
Baruch Spinoza, the renegade 17th century Jewish philosopher, was born in Amsterdam to parents who fled oppressive Portugal to live among the …
When the Australian Open Tennis Tournament was played in 2002, the top-ranked tennis player in the men’s division was Lleyton Hewitt, an Austr…
I internalize everything. The events of the day go into the deepest part of me. I never wanted to do stand-up comedy, but I identify with the …
Watchdog & Storytelling
When I was growing up on our farm in Plainview, Louisiana, my two brothers and I sometimes had to help Mom hoe her garden. We grumbled conside…
You’ve probably read or heard it since Hurricane Helene. “These things happen because of sin.” Well, whose sin in particular spawned the destr…
A man saw a longtime friend who served as pastor of a church and asked him, “What are you doing this week?” His friend responded, “I’m doing w…
BALDWYN — Baldwyn First Christian Church is celebrating its 150th anniversary this month with three weeks of reflections on its past, present …
But everyone, the religious enthusiast may ask with rhetorical flourish, should be a Christian, don’t you agree? It depends, comes the answer.…
I’ve always like Marc Cohn’s song, “Walking in Memphis.” Maybe it’s because of our proximity to Memphis, or maybe it’s the quality of the tune…
The Bible includes two basic concepts of judgment, and you find both of them in that galling, unforgettable piece of ancient theater, Job.
A holy person = A good person. Most folks subscribe to this simple formula.
Never confuse the terms sin and evil in your theology. The two are connected, not the same.
Jonathan Swift told a classic tale in Gulliver’s Travels. Gulliver was a normal-size man who arrived in the land of Lilliput. This land was in…
The light appears to have no color. But when you bend the light, you see that it is made up of all the colors of a rainbow. Love is like that.…
You don’t have to disbelieve in miracles to conclude that lots of what Jesus did, he did through wisdom and observation. Only the snarkiest, m…
OXFORD • Lauren Fortenberry began writing on the night of her 30th birthday.
When I was a small boy, my grandmother had one of those little glass globes filled with water sitting on a shelf in her home. Inside the glass…
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