Listen to “The Widow’s Great Treasure” by Fred Smith For years I have treated the story of the widow’s mite as an illustration of sacrificial giving. So remarkable is the [...]
Listen to “My Trivial Sins” by Fred Smith No one would describe me as a product of diversity. As a Southern Baptist, I grew up sure of our traditions and practices but not our [...]
Listen to “The Glitter is Gone” by Fred Smith In the past there has always been an unspoken bond between the very rich “one percent” of our world and the rest of us. During the [...]
Listen to “All Things In Common” By Fred Smith I posted an article on the shrinking of the middle class as an increasing number of people are falling into the category of [...]
Listen to “And You Have So Many” By Fred Smith This being the week of Mother’s Day, I remember one of my father’s favorite stories about his mother. They lived in a very poor [...]
Listen to “The Great Divide.” While guaranteed to be controversial, Michael Gerson’s essay The Last Temptation in the April issue of The Atlantic has captured 150 years of [...]
In his book, “The Greatest Generation” Tom Brokaw wrote, “At a time in their lives when their days and nights should have been filled with innocent adventure, love, and the lessons of the [...]
Carol and I were in Baltimore last week, and our visits included a middle school in one of the worst neighborhoods of the city. The principal told us their students consistently dropped out long [...]
The creation of wealth often spurs an unexpected reaction in the next generation. During the 12th and early 13th centuries there was something of an explosion of both wealth and the formation of [...]
Is God Out to Lunch? Toward the end of Bryan Stevenson’s book, Just Mercy, he writes of a time at the close of a difficult case that he returns to his law office discouraged and wearied by the [...]
