Aug 11, 2023 | Pondering and Kindling
Where is God in all this? Even cartoonists are addressing the issue. In a recent Family Circus, Commercial Appeal, 7 -28-23) Bill Keane is reading Humpty Dumpty to his small son. As his father comes to the close and the fall… ““All the kings horses and all the...
Aug 6, 2023 | Pondering and Kindling
Dennis the Menace, all dressed in coat and tie, leaving church with his mom and dad, looks up at the preacher who is greeting them and says, “For a preacher…you sure know a lot about sin!” Somewhere along the way I heard of a small “Christian” College in Arkansas that...
Aug 3, 2023 | Pondering and Kindling
Whatever our experience, there is no Christianity apart from the Church. This is true because there is no such thing as solitary Christianity. Although our Christian faith and experience must be personal, it cannot be private. The more private we seek to make it, the...
Jul 30, 2023 | Pondering and Kindling
I sing a lot. I don’t mean I sing a lot publicly. Most of my singing is at odd times, private and alone…when I’m driving, during my private prayer time, even when I’m waiting for an appointment. According to the circumstance and where I am, I sing aloud. I...
Jul 27, 2023 | Pondering and Kindling
Lewis Grizzard was a syndicated newspaper columnist, the author of a number of books, and a rather sophisticated writer who pretended to be a redneck. He was brash, irreverent, and sometimes obscene. I often felt that he was laughing at something, such as, his...
Jul 23, 2023 | Pondering and Kindling
Edith Sitwell said of William Blake, the great painter and poet, “Of course he was cracked. That’s where the light shone through.” I like that explanation! All of us are cracked somewhere, or we are not what we are cracked up to be. None of us are...
