I “rendered to Caesar” today. Our property taxes were due, so I sent in the payment to avoid the penalty. I almost had to force my hand to write the check. I seemed to walk in slow motion as I made the trek to put the envelope in the mailbox. From the window I watched [...]

Each of the gospels is unique. God did not give us just one story of the life of Christ, although that would have been sufficient. He chose to tell it from four perspectives, through the eyes of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Though they all worked from the same information and through the same medium [...]

Maybe we should take those words out of our Pledge of Allegiance. Not because they are unconstitutional, but because they are inaccurate. How can we profess to be “one nation under God” when we can’t say prayers in school but we can distribute contraceptives for “safe sex?” How can we be “one nation under God” [...]

I like to browse through used bookstores. There’s one on Spencer Highway in Pasadena that I particularly frequent called “The Dusty Cover.” Unfortunately, that also describes about half of the library in my office. I found a book in the religious section there a few years back entitled How to Study Difficult Passages in the [...]

Whether by phone, email, text message, or just old-fashioned conversation, one of the questions I am most often asked is, “How’s your work going?” In giving my answer, I don’t type or talk very long before mentioning the fine men of God who serve as shepherds at Southside.  They make “my work” much easier. Something [...]