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Every quarter I like to share quotes that I have encountered in my reading and research that have been meaningful to me. I call them “Nuggets
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Evil or Insanity?
It was 1978, nearly two years after I had graduated from college, when news broke of what would come to be known as the Jonestown
The Logic of Jesus
One of the most challenging verses in the Bible is when Jesus asks “For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world,
What’s In the Box?
Thomas Merton was a highly regarded American Trappist monk, author, and theologian. He once said, “If you want to identify me, ask me not where
The Dangers of Indifference
As the summer comes to a close, most of us return to the routines of the fall: children in school, a regular 5 day work
Who Is Really In Control
“Are not two sparrows sold for a cent? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father.” Matthew 10:29
“Oh, How I love Thy Law”
When I was 12 my friends and I would swim in the Black Warrior River that ran right beside our neighborhood in Tuscaloosa. We would