Listen to “Never Despair” by Fred Smith None of us thought it would end the way it did. It began with small, almost unnoticed decisions by Mrs. Britton, our Sunday School [...]
Listen to “End of the Line” by Fred Smith The story of Abram’s calling begins at the end of the line. If you trace the descendants of Adam through Noah and then to Terah, the [...]
Listen to “The Gandalf Option” by Fred Smith In 2017 Rod Dreher published “The Benedict Option” to define the new relationship between the world and the Church allowing the [...]
Listen to “What Did You Bring Me?” By Fred Smith A big surprise for me when we moved to Tyler was how many people here travel all over the world. I expected a relatively small [...]
Listen to “Crossing Over” by Fred Smith The church service before I taught Sunday School was not to my taste. It’s hard for me to believe God finds this edifying. The [...]
Listen to “No Other Way” by Fred Smith Most of us are familiar with William Wilberforce for his long but ultimately successful struggle to abolish the slave trade in England. [...]
Listen to “An Anguished Apostasy” by Fred Smith When Bob Dylan stepped on the Newport Folk Festival stage in July 1965 there was nothing in his last three appearances that [...]
Listen to “We Should Do Something Together” by Fred Smith Now that the first devastating wave of the pandemic has hit and communities are beginning to slowly open up we can [...]
Listen to “Finishing a Father’s Journey” by Fred Smith Steve Martin is known best for his early work in absurd comedy but he has also evolved into a serious art [...]
Listen to “Undivided” by Fred Smith Two devoted friends and brilliant minds — John Adams and Thomas Jefferson — fell out with each other over politics, personal slights and [...]
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