by mcl | Dec 2, 2015 | Columns, Editor's Letter
It was Christmas 1864, a time when the nation was divided. The Civil War, which was in no way civil, had brought such suffering to families on both sides of the struggle. It would be four more months before Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at the...
by mcl | Nov 2, 2015 | Columns, Editor's Letter
“When we are most turned outward, we are most true to the spirit of our Lord.” Chuck Poole Jesus said unto him, “Love the Lord thy God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like...
by mcl | Oct 5, 2015 | Columns, Editor's Letter
“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.” E.B. White Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the...
by mcl | Aug 31, 2015 | Columns, Editor's Letter
Strength is found not in busyness and noise but in quietness. For a lake to reflect the heavens on its surface, it must be calm. From Streams in the Desert by L.B. Cowman I am sitting on a plane 34,000 feet above the earth moving at a speed of more than 500 miles an...
by mcl | Aug 3, 2015 | Columns, Editor's Letter
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Galatians 6:9 I happened to be invited to speak at a men’s breakfast in Oxford last fall. There are about 30 men of all ages, races, and backgrounds who meet at...
by mcl | Jun 30, 2015 | Columns, Editor's Letter
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” J.R.R. Tolkien And you will know the truth, and the truth will...
