“Does My Life Make Any Sense” I am haunted by a newspaper story. It told of a young secretary who, one day during her lunch hour, climbed out on the edge of the building in which she was working and announced her intentions to jump. Life, at least hers, had… To...
A man complained about his wife who he believed had never changed the toilet tissue roll since they had been married. He got so mad that he started writing the date and time on every cardboard cylinder he changed. One day he had had enough and in his frustration...
Time Resets on Sunday 01 November 2015. Want a creative idea for doing this as a community? A Baptist Church in Abilene, Texas handles the spring-forward, fall-back time change problem in a way that doesn’t inconvenience non-church attenders. This church doesn’t...
“From the outside, church congregations can look like remarkably contentious places, full of hypocrites who talk about love while fighting each other tooth and nail. This is the reason many people give for avoiding them. On the inside, however, it is a different...
When Jack Stotts was the President of McCormick Seminary, something happened that he told in a speech on unity and inclusivity: McCormick Seminary had just relocated to the south side of Chicago to become part of a rich ecumenical cluster of theological schools. One...
A gas thief thought he had struck gold at an RV park in Seattle. He found a motorhome where no one was around. So he siphoned the tank. Unfortunately, he drew up out of the tank not gasoline but raw sewage. The RV owner decided not to press charges. Each… To...
