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Rules of the Game
Steve Coburn’s tirade on Saturday about the unfairness of allowing horses that hadn’t run in either the Derby or the Preakness to run in the Belmont (his excuse for why…
Death of a Writer
One of my favorite authors died last month. Gabriel García Márquez was a Colombian-born journalist and author. My introduction to him came in my World Lit I class at Chapman…
Christ has risen…He has risen indeed!!!
Christ has risen…He has risen indeed! This declaration and response resounds throughout Christendom on Easter Sunday…a day I look forward to each year. While the Christmas season holds special meaning…
I Believe, Therefore…
Over the last couple of months, I began thinking about my Christian faith in a way I have never done before. I have been a Christian for a long time,…Re-envisioning the First Christmas Morn
A few years ago I wrote a Christmas children’s stage play that has since been produced in a number of churches. In the opening scene, after a choir of pint-sized…Putting ObamaCare in Perspective
Newsflash: Obama is not the enemy and ObamaCare is not evil. Judging by all the snarky comments running rampant among Obama opponents, you would think he is the anti-christ and…Death Defier
Some of my readers know that my husband had back surgery a month ago today to relieve pressure on a nerve that was causing him tremendous pain. He had been…Christ in Danger
From the eighth stanza of the Prayer of St. Patrick, 5th Century missionary to Ireland, come the words, “Christ in Danger.” I have meditated on this stanza of Patrick’s prayer…
Praying With My Pencil” —Greg Asimakoupoulos
Now I sit me down
to think
and jot a prayer
with lead or ink.
If I should wake
before I die,
I ask you, Lord,
to help me try
to live each day
for what it’s worth
and make some meaning
of my birth.